Improving Quality Without Increasing Professorial Workloads Yesterday, I spoke about the desirability of changing the nature of academic work – specifically, dividing the assessment part of the job from the instructional part by creating a group of employees that...
Régimen de trabajo academic por Alex Usher
Reducing Work February 14, 2023 | Alex Usher Recently, I asked my Twitter followers who taught in universities about the part of their job they liked the least. I asked because I am pretty convinced Canadian higher education isn’t going to get through the next decade...
Hungría: privatización de universidades públicas
Hungría consagra el golpe a sus universidades públicas: “Los académicos todavía están en ‘shock” El Gobierno ultraconservador de Viktor Orbán ahonda la estrategia para controlar los campus a través de privatizaciones a fundaciones afines. Solo quedan seis...
España: masificación de las clases particulares
El auge de las clases particulares: los ricos las usan para diferenciar a sus hijos, los pobres para que no se queden atrás La mayor investigación sobre las extraescolares educativas realizada en España revela un mercado mucho mayor del calculado hasta ahora: casi la...
Reino Unido: Contexto político y educación superior post-Brexit
Post-Brexit educational mobilities – What’s next? Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters 21 January 2023 Following its departure from the European Union in 2020, the United Kingdom left the Erasmus+ programme, which funded international mobility for higher education...
EEUU: Contexto político de la educación superior
Blue versus red states: Higher education policy-making in the US John Aubrey Douglass 21 January 2023 The midterm elections in the United States brought a sort of victory for President Joe Biden and the Democrats, including the retention of a slim majority in the...
Contexto político global y educación superior
Higher education can reverse its democratic recession William G Tierney 21 January 2023 One need not be a linguist to acknowledge the fluidity of language. In 1977 Lewis B Mayhew, one of academe’s preeminent scholars of higher education, penned Legacy of the...
Sudáfrica: Corrupción en la educación superior
National task force for HE security after attack on university leader Edwin Naidu 14 January 2023 The apparent assassination attempt on one of South Africa’s top university leaders, in which his bodyguard was killed, has highlighted the threat of corruption that...
Inglaterra: Evaluación de colegios
Heads call for end to ‘blunt’ Ofsted ratings in inspections overhaul ASCL says grades such as ‘requires improvement’ should be replaced by descriptions of strengths and flaws Sally Weale , Education correspondent - The Guardian Fri 20 Jan 2023 Headteachers are calling...
¿Quién le tiene miedo a ChatGPT?
Why I’m Not Scared of ChatGPT The limits of the technology are where real writing begins. By Christopher Grobe! JANUARY 18, 2023 Each time I embark on a new writing project, I find that I’ve forgotten how to write. I type and delete sentence fragments. I list claims...
Ministros de educación reunidos en Santiago
Comienza la “Ministerial de Educación” en Santiago, con llamado urgente a recuperar y reactivar los sistemas...
Reunión extraordinaria de ministras y ministros de Educación de América Latina y el Caribe
Chile será sede de reunión extraordinaria de ministras y ministros de Educación de América Latina y el Caribe La cita...
Harald Beyer y la soledad escolar
Soledad escolar: ¿una epidemia? Harald Beyer: “...El estudio efectuado en jóvenes de 15 años que rindieron la prueba...
Andrés Sanfuentes, economista, sobre educación chilena
La educación como origen del estancamiento y la mantención de la desigualdad Por : Andrés Sanfuentes Vergara...