The Gates Effect The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $472-million (so far) on higher education. Why many in academe are not writing thank-you notes. Terry Crosgrove, who works in an Ohio plant that makes Slim Jims, is studying for an associate degree...
Elección de estudios en EEUU
The 7 Things Students Think About When Choosing a College By Julian Wyllie FEBRUARY 13, 2018 seb_ra/iStock What happens when a high-school student from a low-income family wants to attend a private college 100 miles away, but has a parent whispering in her ear to look...
Mérito, selección y accesibilidad académica
A Call for Elite Schools to Redefine ‘Merit’ Copyright ©2018 Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, a CMA publication. February 19, 2018 | : by Manuel S. Gonzalez Canche I simply refuse to believe that talent is clustered within those who have the most. I am convinced...
Usher: Seguimiento de la gratuidad en varios países
Roll On, Free Tuition February 6th, 2018 - Alex Usher I've written a few times over the years about the spread of Targeted Free Tuition (TFT) programs. Starting in Chile and Ontario in 2016 (after a false start in the UK in the late 1990s), they have started to...
Francia: ¿Reforma sus universidades?
Left Bank Choosiness February 14th, 2018 - Alex Usher To Paris, where a couple of big changes in education policy have led to student demonstrations. Not particularly large or effective demonstrations (not yet, anyway), but significant nonetheless. The first - and...
¿Innovación disruptiva en la educación superior?
When Will Tech Disrupt Higher Education? KENNETH ROGOFF, 5 February 2018 Universities pride themselves on producing creative ideas that disrupt the rest of society, yet higher-education teaching techniques continue to evolve at a glacial pace. Given education’s...
Nuevo Rector de Harvard
Harvard Picks Former Tufts President as Its New Leader By Andy Thomason and Adam Harris FEBRUARY 11, 2018 Bill Sikes, AP Images Lawrence Bacow Harvard University has chosen for its 29th president a veteran leader of elite colleges. Lawrence S. Bacow, a former...
¿(Des)implementando la Reforma Educacional?
¿(Des)implementando la Reforma Educacional? por SEBASTIÁN SALAZAR P. 6 febrero, 2018 Los expertos en gestión de riesgos y emergencia han establecido tres tipos de alertas ante la ocurrencia de una emergencia o catástrofe. Se habla de alerta verde o temprana preventiva...
Cierre Universidad Iberoamericana
Esta semana el CNED ratificó el cierre de esa casa de estudios Javier Mora, vicepresidente de Federación de Estudiantes de la U. Iberoamericana: “El miedo más profundo es no...
Sciences Po – Paris en la huella de Macron
Macron Efecto French president's alma mater sees surge in international applications. By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education February 9, 2018 Emmanuel Macron’s rapid rise to France’s presidency was always likely to raise the international profile of his alma mater....
Chile: gratuidad, deuda y FES
Matrícula gratuita versus deuda estudiantil: la paradoja de las políticas públicas Carlos Olivares 02 de julio de...
Ingreso de graduados en el Reino Unido
¿Las universidades del Reino Unido están exagerando los datos sobre los ingresos de sus graduados? La revisión de dos...
Quién hizo qué en una publicación
Por qué es importante saber quién hizo qué en un trabajo de investigación Kim Eggleton y Daniel Keirs , 2 de julio...
El proyecto FES, tal como está, encalló
El proyecto FES, tal como está, encalló ''…fue presentada inicialmente como si viniera a resolver el nudo del...