Universities should be apolitical, not centres of social justice activism John Raine, David Lillis and Peter Schwerdtfeger 08 July 2023 A perfect storm is hitting our university sector right now. Current social justice political activism is an aggravating factor in...
Colaboración y competencia entre universidades: un informe de alto valor
Global University Leaders Council Hamburg (GUC) GUC 2023: Navigating competition and collaboration – The way forward for universities Competition and collaboration have always been part of academia. In recent years and decades, however, the way in which these...
Academias Nacionales de los EEUU frente a decisión de la Corte Suprema de dicho país
Declaración de las Academias Nacionales de Ciencias, Ingenierías y Medicina de los Estados Unidos ante la reciente decisión de la Corte Suprema de dicho país, decisión que anteriormente se comentó aquí y aquí. National Academies Presidents’ Statement on Affirmative...
Educación superior: falta de dirección y futuro
Educación superior: falta de dirección y futuro ''El sistema nacional de ES está perdiendo dinamismo. De un lado, se halla constreñido por una disminución de recursos; del otro, por el incremento de costos de las funciones académicas que impone el régimen de...
Gran Bretaña: Debate sobre financiamiento de la educación superior
Parties divided on best way out of the HE funding impasse Nic Mitchell 21 June 2023 Clear blue water is starting to open up between the direction a future Labour government could be heading over funding higher education in England should they win the next general...
E Hazelkorn: Futuro de la educación terciaria
We need a dynamic new model for post-secondary education Ellen Hazelkorn 20 June 2023 Near universal participation in higher education has been a huge achievement for OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. As we look towards the...
Universidades de elite en Gran Bretaña y EEUU
What elite American universities can learn from Oxbridge US colleges could make themselves more meritocratic — but do they want to? Simon Kuper, JUNE 15 2023 Both the US and UK preselect their adult elites early, by admitting a few 18-year-olds into brandname...
50 años: las universidades en Chile 1973-2023
No. 719, junio de 2023, pp. 45-48. LAS UNIVERSIDADES EN CHILE: PREGUNTAS ABIERTAS Las universidades del 1973 extraviaron su propio equilibrio interno, se desbordaron y tornaron militantes, y terminaron arrolladas, intervenidas, silenciadas y aplastadas por un golpe de...
Alex Usher: El futuro de la educación superior
The Far Future June 7, 2023 | Alex Usher Occasionally, I get asked about why higher education will look like in forty or fifty years. I usually beg off this kind of thing because predictions over that length of time aren’t very meaningful. I mean, will AI have an...
Mal uso de datos en la investigación
How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. By Gary Smith JUNE 6, 2023 Over the past 20 years, a wave of improbable-sounding scientific research has come under the microscope. Are Asian...
Qué hace a una universidad
Don’t ditch research quality benchmarks, universities say Australian institutions say new research rules are not to...
Ranking THE: Universidades Chilenas
World University Rankings 2024 The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 include 1,906 universities...
Nueva Escocia, Canadá: ¿más Estado, regulación, menos financiamiento?
MARCH 4, 2024 | ALEX USHER One Thought to Start Your Day Nova Scotia and the Politics of Listening I know, I...
La lectura y las pantallas
Mihael Kovač, experto en lectura y el efecto de las pantallas: “Quienes mejor usan los ordenadores son grandes...