How to avoid being sucked into the black hole of administration Bureaucracy is the bane of every academic’s life. But who is to blame for its proliferation – and how can it be kept in check? Six academics have their say – while a registrar offers an equal and opposite...
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Con un pionero del machine learning
Interview with Bernhard Schölkopf Machine learning pioneer on how he became obsessed with stars as a child, why many AI predictions are just hype, and whether he is tempted to join big tech full-time October 17, 2019 By David Matthews Twitter: @DavidMJourno Bernhard...
Medir la experiencia de los estudiantes
An Author of ‘Academically Adrift’ Strikes Again Last week Richard Arum, a co-author of the influential book “Academically Adrift,” unveiled an effort to measure the complexity of learning inside the classroom. The kickoff event took place at the U. of California at...
Canadá: Agenda de política universitaria / de investigación
Honing the University Party's Growth Agenda September 16th, 2019 - Alex Usher It’s election season, and so everyone is trotting out promises and coming up with manifestos. These manifestos are lists of specific promised policy initiatives, but they are also –...
La economía como disciplina: encrucijadas
The Economists' New Clothes? With economists struggling to derive credible explanations of macroeconomic conditions from the prevailing models, those who have long criticized the discipline for its scientific pretensions are feeling vindicated. And it remains to be...
Media Lab del MIT: Fantasía y realidad
Hype vs. Reality at the MIT Media Lab By Nell Gluckman September 11, 2019 Cambridge, Mass. It was a validating moment for Caleb Harper. Norman Foster, the renowned architect who designed Apple’s circular headquarters, had come to the Massachusetts Institute of...
Humanidades y STEM
Long Reads Mind Over STEM Aug 30, 2019 NICHOLAS AGAR With universities around the world cutting liberal-arts programs and even eliminating entire majors such as history, there is every reason to worry about the fate of the humanities. In an era of deepening...
Formación en políticas públicas
Don’t Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy Sep 1, 2019 RICARDO HAUSMANN Engineering and medicine have in many respects become separate from their respective underlying sciences of physics and biology. Public-policy schools, which typically have a strong economics...
Academia ultra rápida, profesores lentos
The ‘slow professor’ could bring back creativity to our universities August 25, 2019 7.31am EDT Author Julien Lefort-Favreau Assistant Professor, French Studies, Queen's University, Ontario Disclosure statement Julien Lefort-Favreau has received funding from the...
Estado de la educación superior en Polonia
Poland’s higher education reforms: power grab or necessary adjustment? Poland’s authoritarian government is routinely compared to its widely criticised counterpart in Hungary, and its university reforms sparked a wave of protest by students and academics fearful of...
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Educación y desigualdad en Iberoamérica: círculo perverso
Educación y desigualdad en Iberoamérica: un círculo perverso “El problema de las desigualdades sociales tiene un...
Entrevista con Judith Butler
Judith Butler, filósofa: “Las feministas que no repudian a la derecha antigénero son sus cómplices” La intelectual...
Las derechas de regreso en sus laberintos
Las derechas de regreso en sus laberintos Gana espacios la lógica de la polarización, beneficiando al grupo más...
Doctorados en artes y humanidades
We need a debate about PhDs in the arts and humanities. Now. Christopher Smith 04 May 2024 For a qualification which...