View as Webpage A New(ish) Argument About Debt and Tuition June 11th, 2019 - Alex Usher As I am starting to sketch out the bones of my next book, (semi-serious working title: How Tuition Fees Will Save the World ) , I am collecting arguments about the nature and...
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Alex Usher sobre capital privado en la educación superior
View as Webpage Private Capital in Higher Education (Part I) June 18th, 2019 - Alex Usher When you think about it, higher education is one of the greatest businesses in the world. It’s a guaranteed and growing market – as economies develop, people want more of...
La tiranía de las métricas
The Tyranny of Metrics The quest to quantify everything undermines higher education By Jerry Z. Muller JANUARY 21, 2018 PREMIUM Tim Foley, for The Chronicle Review Acultural pattern has become ubiquitous in recent decades, engulfing an ever-widening range of...
Redes sociales académicas, ¿feria de vanidades?
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...
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