China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ With youth unemployment at a record, the Communist Party is trying to reset expectations about social mobility by talking up the virtue of hardship. By Li Yuan Published May 30,...
Simon Schama: Rol de la historia y los historiadores
Simon Schama: ‘Do you think I’d be allowed to write that book now?’ As his new book on pandemics is published, the UK’s best-known historian tells Matthew Reisz that identity politics is inhibiting history, nationalism only intensifies during global crises, and a...
Financiamiento basado en el desempeño
MAY 26, 2023 | ALEX USHER The World of Higher Education Podcast Performance-Based Funding in Europe If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the...
IA, ¿cómo afectará a la educación superior? Especial del Chronicle of Higher Education
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed? ChatGPT is just the beginning. 12 scholars and administrators explain. THE REVIEW | FORUM, MAY 25, 2023 When ChatGPT made its public debut last year, the CEO of OpenAI, ChatGPT’s parent company, predicted that...
Gestión y especialización en las universidades
MAY 31, 2023 | ALEX USHER Economies of Scale and the Unmanageability of Universities I’ve recently had reason to ponder some of the mysteries of university management. I’ve concluded that it’s much harder to run a university in a moderately efficient fashion...
Unión Europea: Libertad de cátedra
El presidente de la Asociación de Universidades Europeas: “Vemos un deterioro de la libertad de cátedra en ciertos países” Josep Maria Garrell, exrector de la Universidad Ramon Llull, es el primer español que dirige la European University Association, que representa a...
Interesantes aplicaciones de IA a la educación superior
Five ways AI has already changed higher education Powerful new technologies are transforming the way universities operate, even before the impact of ChatGPT is truly felt Tom Williams Jack Grove, May 15, 2023 Since the emergence of ChatGPT – and its successor GPT-4 –...
Estudiar y trabajar: Australia y Gran Bretaña
Rise in working students ‘should prompt radical teaching rethink’ Cost-of-living crisis has driven many more to find paid work alongside studies, with universities reassessing practices as a result May 10, 2023, Tom Williams Undergraduates working part-time alongside...
Incentivos financieros e investigación
Global drive for more open, rigorous research is growing Karen MacGregor 08 May 2023 There is growing pushback against research systems driven by financial rewards for exciting findings, at the expense of rigour and integrity. The Open Science Framework for...
XXIII Sesión Cátedra Internacional en Ciencia y Educación – Cali, Colombia
Salman Rushdie: entrevista
Salman Rushdie: “Oscuridad es la palabra que mejor define este presente” El escritor retoma el género del relato...
A. Usher: Educacion superior alrededor del mundo
30 DE ENERO DE 2026 | ALEX USHER Los Quince Hola a todos. The Fifteen regresa con las mejores historias sobre...
Manuel Castells, sociólogo: “El mundo está en un proceso de autodestrucción”
El intelectual catalán, que es el sociólogo español más citado del mundo, reclama la necesidad de una mayor...
La izquierda de las belles lettres
Pese a su aversión al poder, esta izquierda textual y literaria suele adoptar un tono de superioridad moral e...