How primary and secondary teachers differ and why it matters - February 01, 2018 by Marie-Helene Doumet, Senior Analyst, Directorate for Education and Skills Learning needs vary as we evolve through life. The early years of education set the stage for children’s...
Escuelas de Negocios, ¿deben estar en las universidades?
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW Business Schools Have No Business in the University By Steven Conn FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PREMIUM When my history department colleagues and I gather for our monthly faculty meeting, we assemble in a slightly cramped seminar room and deposit ourselves...
Carta de ex rector UCH: Legado para universidades estatales
SEÑOR DIRECTOR Establecer un “nuevo trato” entre el Estado y sus universidades era parte del programa del actual gobierno de la Presidenta Bachelet, algo que la Universidad de Chile venía reclamando desde el retorno a la democracia para reparar el daño institucional,...
El efecto a Bill Gates en la educación superior
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...
Trump propone armar a los colegios
Trump Suggests Teachers Get a ‘Bit of a Bonus’ to Carry Guns By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, FEB. 22, 2018, NEW YOTK TIMES To deter school shootings, President Trump supported the idea of giving teachers bonuses if they agree to carry guns in the classroom. By THE...
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...
José María Lemaitre : con admiración
La Fundación AEQUALIS lamenta profundamente comunicar el fallecimiento de María José Lemaitre, quien formó parte del...
Mal uso de datos en la investigación
How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other...
China: dilema de los graduados
China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ With youth unemployment at a record, the...
Cuentas y acusaciones
Cuentas y acusaciones ''El segundo recuento anual del Presidente Boric no significa cambios de relevancia para la...