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...
Revista temas sociológicos: estudios sobre juventud en Chile
Apreciadas y apreciados colegas, junto con saludarles y por medio del presente correo, nos contactamos con ustedes para hacerles llegar el último número 24 publicado por la Revista Temas Sociológicos. En este número encontrarán una sección dossier dedicada a...
Desafíos de la Educación Superior Chilena
Participación en el en el seminario "Desafíos de la Educación Superior Chilena" realizado los días 8 y 9 de agosto en la ciudad de Iquique, Universidad de Tarapacá. Video-conferencia en el siguiente enlace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6W6dlf_Xfo [Minuto...
Definiciones del Subsecretario de Educación Superior
Juan Eduardo Vargas da sus primeras definiciones, a una semana de llegar a la nueva entidad: Subsecretario de Educación Superior anticipa diálogo con otras instituciones y “no solo con el Consejo de Rectores” Dice que “no habrá borrón y cuenta nueva” en el sistema de...
Retraso en anuncio del financiamiento estudiantil
La falta de apoyos y acuerdos legislativos que obligaron a Boric y Cataldo a retrasar el anuncio del CAE Roberto...
Elitismo Oxbridge: cómo podría reformarse
UK elitism cannot be fixed without Oxbridge admissions reform A merit-based admissions lottery and strict caps on how...
USA: Políticas universitarias frente a protestas
We Looked at Dozens of Colleges’ New Protest Policies. Here’s What We Found. By Declan Bradley and Garrett Shanley...
Aprender a convivir
Aprender a convivir 'Si bien las escuelas no pueden contrarrestar los muchos problemas, amenazas y riesgos que derivan...