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...
Educación en la Constitución: ¿Cuál es el riesgo?
Educación en la Constitución: ¿Cuál es el riesgo? Jorge Ibáñez Carvallo, Director de Política Educativa de Educación...
Guía de lectura de J.M. Coetzee
The Essential J.M. Coetzee His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South...
Wendy Brown: democracia y nihilismo
Wendy Brown, filósofa: “La izquierda debe hacer algo más que reaccionar a lo que dice la derecha” Feminista que no...
Entrevista con G. Pardo sobre Presidente Boric
El intelectual José Joaquín Brunner, académico de la UDP y exministro: “Me preocupa que el Presidente entienda que él,...