How Social Media Imperils Scholarship It plays on our vanity and reduces research to a popularity contest. By JUSTIN E.H. SMITH June 2, 2019 If you tell me you have never Googled yourself, I will presume you are lying. Some months ago, I engaged in a periodic exercise...
Micro credenciales
Microcredentials June 6th, 2019 - Alex Usher One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as a...
Nuevo Boletín International Higher Education
PUBLISHED: 2019-06-05 FULL ISSUE Full Issue PDF INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND TRENDS Connectivity of National Systems of Higher Education: Evidence from the U21 Rankings Ross Williams 2-3 PDF Higher Education Equity Policies across the Globe Jamil Salmi 4-5 PDF Two...
Convocatoria 5to Encuentro de Educación Superior y Mundo del Trabajo, BIESTRA 2019
Estimada/o colega, Le invitamos a presentar ponencias hasta el 24 de julio, en el marco del 5to Encuentro de Educación Superior y Mundo del Trabajo, "BIESTRA 2019: Implicancias Educativas de la IV Revolución Industrial", a realizarse los días 23 y 24 de octubre en...
Sobre planes estratégicos en las universidades
Does My Institution Need a Strategic Plan? May 27th, 2019 - Alex Usher As our company’s name suggests, we think a lot about strategic planning here at HESA Towers. And after a decade of doing this job, I have come to the conclusion that while most institutions do...
Examen de ingreso (SAT) a universidades de EEUU y nuevo factor de adversidad
JEFFERSON, ADAMS, AND THE SAT’S NEW ADVERSITY FACTOR By Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker Today, May 23, 2019 Most discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that, somewhere around the next bend and soon to make itself apparent, is the right...
Protestas contra cortes fiscales en universidades brasileñas
Students in Brazil mobilise against President Jair Bolsonaro's cuts to education. Photograph by Joao Alexandre Peschanski, Wikimedia Commons. Join us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter BRAZIL 1.5 million protest against Bolsonaro’s university cuts María Elena...
Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en Venezuela en Tiempos de la Revolución Bolivariana: un Proceso Sesgado
Latin American Research Centre, University of Calgary, Canada Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en Venezuela en Tiempos de la Revolución Bolivariana: un Proceso Sesgado Maria Cristina Parra-Sandoval | May 2019 (LARC Visiting Fellow Maria Cristina...
Holanda: bajar la presión competitiva en concursos de investigación
Dutch to rein in scramble for research grants in sector shake-up ‘Competition in scientific research has gone too far,’ says government-appointed committee proposing wide-ranging reform package By David Matthews, May 21, 2019 Advance in tandem: competition results in...
Libertad académica en Alemania: individual y/o de las organizaciones
Germany debates whether academic freedom is an individual or organisational right In a managerial era, universities are challenging the traditional idea that only individuals need protecting, say Otto Hüther and Georg Krücke May 9, 2019 By Otto Hüther By Georg Krücken...
Burocracia de nivel intermedio en una universidad china
Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University Hello everyone. I’m Alex Usher and this is the World of...
Educación y desafíos de la democracia: número especial (F. Reimers editor)
Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas/Arquivos Analíticos de Políticas...
Educación liberal en Rusia autoritaria: no funciona
Russian liberal-arts program, founded with Bard, will end One of Russia’s most prominent liberal-arts programs is...