FEBRUARY 23, 2022 | ALEX USHER The World of Higher Education Podcast Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries S1 E4: Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Guest: Jamil Salmi Morning all. Today is Thursday and hence podcast day. Today’s guest is my...
Alex Usher: carga de trabajo académico
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...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions of intellectual inquiry and meritocracy, in both Britain and the United States elite universities reproduce the ethnic, racial and class divisions...
ChatGDP: reacciones desde el mundo universitario
Sciences Po bans ChatGPT amid HE quality, integrity fears Karen MacGregor 03 February 2023 Leading French grande école Sciences Po has banned the use of ChatGPT, the new chatbot capable of instantly writing essays, that has sparked consternation in higher education...
CFT estatales
CFT Estatales de Chile: una política descentralizadora y de justicia social por Ramón Rubio Donoso 3 febrero, 2023 Las comunidades que han recibido a los CFT, conocen el valor e impacto de esta descentralizadora política pública, y comunas como Alto Hospicio, Ovalle,...
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...
Europa: Contexto político y educación superior
Universities and elections: Democratic actors or reactors? Sjur Bergan 21 January 2023 When one explores the issue of universities and elections, as University World News does in this and its previous edition, one should ask at least three questions: are universities...
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...
Brasil: Contexto político y educación superior
Cautious optimism in universities greets new president Lula Marcelo Knobel and Elizabeth Balbachevsky 08 January 2023 When Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s new president on 1 January 2023, he found higher education (and many other areas) a...
¿Será posible?
¿Será posible? "El actual clima político favorece a líderes integradores y moderados" José Joaquín Brunner, Viernes 23...
México: La educación entre 2018 y 2024 – el inmenso reto ante lo inesperado
La educación entre 2018 y 2024: el inmenso reto ante lo inesperado Articulista Manuel Gil Antón. MANUEL GIL ANTÓN|...
Nuestra democracia: ¿defectuosa o disfuncional?
Nuestra democracia: ¿defectuosa o disfuncional? Lo que tenemos es una democracia activa, resiliente, adaptativa,...
España: progreso educativo
España acorta su histórica brecha educativa: “Sin estudios solo hay trabajo en hostelería, y es precario” El...