Are countries ready to invest in early childhood education? Posted: 28 Jun 2017 02:13 AM PDT by Dirk Van Damme Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress Division, Directorate for Education and Skills There is now a widespread consensus that high-quality early...
OECD: Financiamiento de colegios
Investigating the complexities of school funding by Deborah Nusche Senior Analyst, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Back in 2013, when we launched the OECD's first international review of school resource policies, we may not have been fully prepared for the...
Tiempo de clases y productividad de la enseñanza
educationtoday blog Studying more may not make you a top-performer Posted: 20 Jun 2017 03:11 AM PDT by Hélène Guillou Consultant, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills It’s 3pm in Finland. A bell rings, marking the end of classes in a middle school and time for...
Turquía: cuántos alumnos participan en PISA
Who makes it into PISA? Posted: 19 Jun 2017 02:57 AM PDT by Nicholas Spaull Former Thomas J. Alexander Fellow, OECD Unlike earlier PISA reports, the 2015 PISA report (Volume I and Volume II) highlights differences in sample coverage – how many students were eligible...
Libre elección de colegios
Is more choice always a good thing? Posted: 25 May 2017 01:28 PM PDT by Andreas Schleicher Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Many education systems around the world are looking for ways to give parents more choice over where they send their children...
Dinamarca: Cambios en la gobernanza de las universidades
DENMARK Government strengthens grip on universities again Jan Petter Myklebust0, University World News, March 2017 Issue No:449 Søren Pind, the Danish minister of higher education and science, has surprised everybody by endorsing an extensive new legislative proposal...
Nueva ley de educación superior, Inglaterra
Be it enacted: The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) AUTHOR Wonkhe Ltd David Morris dgmorris295 David is Deputy Editor of Wonkhe. PUBLISHED Apr 27th 2017 Now with a bang, but with a quietly murmured “content”. The Higher Education and Research Act (2017), as of...
“Las universidades están cansadas de los ránkings”
ENTREVISTA | LOUISE SIMPSON DIRECTORA DE THE WORLD 100 REPUTATION NETWORK “Las universidades están cansadas de los ránkings” Hay que alejarse del concepto de “soy bueno en todo” y centrar los esfuerzos en la especialización RAMÓN OLIVER Madrid 15 ABR 2017 - 04:35 COT...
libertad de expresión en la academia
Freedom of speech is not just for academics Universities should not be neutral about attempts to ‘no platform’ speakers. They must defend students’ right to hear orthodoxy challenged, says Steve Fuller April 27, 2017 By Steve Fuller Twitter: @ProfSteveFuller Source:...
Educación y nueva ola de globalización
How to surf the new wave of globalisation Posted: 04 May 2017 02:10 AM PDT by Andreas Schleicher Director, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Globalisation is connecting people, cities, countries and continents, bringing together a majority of the world’s...
La mesa técnica creada para el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE)
Los nudos expuestos durante la mesa técnica creada para mejorar el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE) Durante esta...
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias La oposición constructiva de derechas logra llevar adelante una...
Crisis de salud mental en universidades británicas
Support from academics ‘can make student mental health worse’ Attempts by well-meaning scholars to help services...
Steven Brint sobre educación superior en EEUU de Trump
‘There Needs to Be a Rousing Defense of the Sector’ Steven Brint talks Trumpian dystopia, the administrator-activist...