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...
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...
Gobierno optimista frente al FES
Subsecretario de Educación Superior, Víctor Orellana: “El FES va a ser aprobado porque sabemos que hay un consenso...