Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
Nuevas concepciones del PhD
The New Ph.D. Momentum grows to rewrite the rules of graduate training By Marc Parry February 16, 2020 PREMIUM (c) Meg Berkobien couldn’t do it anymore. She’d finished about three-quarters of a doctoral dissertation in comparative literature. Her advisers at the...
Consultas antes de definir políticas: Inglaterra y Australia
How to Make Policy February 12th 2020 - Alex Usher Take a ride with me. First stop, London, England. UK university funding is handled by an intermediate institution known as the Office for Students (OfS). The Government decides on the amount of money it wants to spend...
Pago de la deuda estudiantil en USA
Growing Federal Subsidies for Graduate Loan Debt Almost half of federal student loans are being repaid through more generous income-driven repayment plans, new data show, with 80 percent of government subsidies now going to graduate student borrowers. Almost half of...
¿Investigación interdisciplinaria?
Is interdisciplinary research really the best way to tackle global challenges? Politicians, funders and university leaders all intone the mantra of interdisciplinarity. But what does the concept really mean? Will it really yield the insights it promises? And how best...
Acuerdo IESALC – OEI
educación superior en Iberoamérica FIRMA DE CONVENIO DE COLABORACIÓN ENTRE LA OEI Y LA UNESCO-IESALC PARA IMPULSAR LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN IBEROAMÉRICA 11 FEBRERO, 2020 El secretario general de la OEI, Mariano Jabonero, y el director de la UNESCO-IESALC, Francesc...
Barreras a la movilidad social en EEUU
The Barriers to Mobility Why Higher Ed’s Promise Remains Unfulfilled Kevin Van Aelst for The Chronicle December 31, 2019 By KARIN FISCHER For generations of Americans, higher education was a ladder — study hard and you could climb into the middle class. A college...
Mercado laboral de graduados en Canadá
View as Webpage New Data on Labour Market Outcomes February 13th 2020 - Alex Usher A couple of weeks ago, the Labour Market Information Council released a whack of material, produced by Ross Finnie and his Education Policy Research Initiative, on graduate labour...
¿Estamos preparados para lo que viene?
Columnistas Domingo 09 de febrero de 2020 ¿Estamos preparados para lo que viene? "El futuro trato de la educación superior por parte del Estado y la proyección de las instituciones en un contexto de fuerte politizació, como viviremos al menos hasta 2025, es algo mucho...
DIRECTIVOS universitarios de EEUU frente a desafíos del 2020
BRIEF 7 college presidents share their biggest challenges for 2020 We checked in with the execs who contributed columns for last year's President Speaks series to ask what hurdles they expect on their campus this year. Credit: Fotolia By Education Dive Staff Published...
Necesitamos una realidad compartida: Hannah Arendt, el antídoto contra los hechos alternativos
Abundan los (ir)responsables políticos que, con sus mentiras, construyen realidades paralelas. Y los ciudadanos que se...
Los diez pensadores que más influyen en la izquierda
La izquierda vive momentos complicados. ILUSTRACIONES: LUIS GRAÑENA Sergio C. Fanjul 24 JUN 2023 - 23:25 CLT La...
Las universidades cierran un acuerdo con una importante editorial de investigación: AUSTRALIA-NUEVA ZELANDA
Universidades de Australia y Nueva Zelanda negociaron un acuerdo de licencia histórico con una importante editorial de...
Estas son las fuerzas que darán forma a las universidades en 2050
¿Qué fuerzas darán forma a las universidades de excelencia mundial en la década de 2050? Futao Huang , Niancai...