The Fight Over Academic Freedom Amid spiraling campus speech debates, many professors are rallying in defense of a bedrock principle. But can they agree on just what it means? Image A gate at Harvard University showing the school’s motto, “Veritas,” or...
Richard Sennett a los ‘80
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La prohibición de conocer como principio educativo
Teaching Ignorance in Florida Prohibitions on knowledge draw attention to what they prohibit. By Peter Brooks FEBRUARY 6, 2024 “Teaching Ignorance”: That’s the title of a famous essay by the literary critic Barbara Johnson, published in a 1982 issue of Yale French...
Un ejercicio con IA y sus limites
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Harvard y MIT: IA aplicada al acceso y retención
After pioneering edX, Harvard and MIT tackle online access afresh With Axim, elite university duo looks to aid innovation more than create it – and keep $800 million nest egg February 7, 2024 Paul Basken Access aids: Harvard and MIT promised to use proceeds of edX...
Finlandia: programa de doctorados en tres años
Government to fund 1,000 PhDs who have to finish in 3 years Jan Petter Myklebust 01 February 2024 A pilot programme that will effectively test a new model for doctoral education in Finland that aims to increase the number of PhD graduates and strengthen the societal...
Países bajos: debate sobre política de financiamiento de la investigación
The Netherlands’ new science policy is unevidenced, undebated and risky Previous output is by far the best predictor of future success, but has become far less important for Dutch funding allocation, says Raymond Poot Raymond Poot, January 23, 2024 A well-funded and...
Internacionalización: debates actuales
Accountability in internationalisation: it must be personal Paulina Latorre, Uwe Brandenburg and Hans de Wit 27 January 2024 In 2011, two of us, Uwe Brandenburg and Hans de Wit, published an essay in International Higher Education with the provocative title “The end...
USA: Educación, clases sociales y elecciones
The Political Failure of Bidenomics Feb. 22, 2024 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist After Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, most sensible Democrats realized they had a problem. The party was hemorrhaging support from the white working class. More than 60 percent of...
Aumento de cobertura en educación superior
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Cómo se toman las decisiones sobre el cierre de un programa
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¿Cuán católica debe ser una universidad católica?
How Catholic should a Catholic university be? Disagreements over the extent to which Catholic teaching should...
Europa: universidades necesitan repensar cómo hacen las cosas
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El esfuerzo como ideal educativo
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