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...
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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...
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XVI Curso Interinstitucional: Debates Contemporáneos. Sesión 1: Inauguración y Conferencia Magistral. Ponente: Dr....
Lo decolonial en la educación básica mexicana
Ideología del Plan de Estudios de Educación Básica 2022 4 agosto, 2022 por Roberto Rodríguez Gómez En esta ocasión...
Académicos por el “apruebo” educación
Carta por el Apruebo: Cuatro premios nacionales de educación, dos rectores y 75 académicos firman llamado de cara al...
Homenaje a Eunice Durham, amiga y colega, por Simon Schwartzman, amigo y colega
As virtudes antigas de Eunice By Simon on Aug 12, 2022 (Publicado em O Estado de São Paulo, 12 de agosto de 2022)...