Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
Investigación científica en el mundo: publicar o morir
Research publications: does piling them high sell them short? All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research...
Productividad e improductividad de la academia: Reflexiones de un Nobel
Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers' Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian, Friday 6 December 2013 17.37 GMT...
Trump ante la U de Harvard
Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard The administration has already canceled hundreds of...
Historias interesantes de universidades en los meses pasados
That Was The Quarter That Was, Winter 2025 March 31, 2025 | Alex Usher I’m trying something new today. Every second...
Financiamiento estudiantil y ahorros fiscales
Financiamiento estudiantil y ahorros fiscales “...el logro de una política fiscal sostenible responde al interés...
Aequalis: CAE y FES
Fundación AEQUALIS entrega a MINEDUC reflexiones sobre proyecto de ley de financiamiento de la Educación Superior Con...