Universidad

By Antonio Arias

Education
America Is Divided by Education
The Atlantic - Adam Harris
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it. One of the most striking patterns in yesterday’s election was
A Higher Purpose for Higher Education
The Atlantic
To train the workforce of the future, schools must adapt to the needs of their students today. In 1973, workers with postsecondary education held just 28 percent of jobs in the U.S. It is expected that
Las 13 profesiones con mayor futuro en España
businessinsider.es - Business Insider España
¿Cuáles son las profesiones con más salidas? El Grupo Adecco ha realizado un estudio para conocer cuáles son los sectores con mejores perspectivas de …
New Report Sheds Light on Higher Ed’s Innovation Challenges
edsurge.com - Tina Nazerian
A new report surveying academic administrators released Wednesday by the Online Learning Consortium and Learning House sheds some insight on …
High School
The Third Education Revolution
The Atlantic - Jeffrey Selingo
Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy. When the giant Indian technology-services firm Infosys announced last November that it
The Medieval University Monopoly
historytoday.com - William Whyte
New universities sprung up across medieval Europe at a rapid rate, yet at the start of the 19th century, England had only two: Oxford and Cambridge. …
Graduates should fund their former universities - says college president
independent.ie - Sorcha O'Connor
He told the Irish Independent there was a "great tradition" of past students gifting contributions to their universities in North America. "I would be …
Scrap tuition fees. Graduate tax is a win-win for students – and everyone
The Guardian - Peter Hain
A graduate tax is the fairest way of financing university students because the more they earn, the more tax they pay The student tuition fees system is broken, Justine Greening, the recently departed secretary,
A Dutch university has canceled plans to offer degrees at its China campus
Quartz - By Zheping Huang
The University of Groningen has abandoned plans to offer full degrees at its newly built campus in China, according to an announcement yesterday (Jan. 29). The university’s China branch, called the University
Downing Street
You can’t beat Corbyn with Miliband – but the Tories are trying to anyway
The Spectator - James Forsyth
Fiddling around with university fees isn’t going to make the Conservatives suddenly competitive Tuition fees have all but killed the Liberal Democrats. The breach of their manifesto pledge to abolish charges,
How should traditional universities deliver wholly online learning?
masmithers.com - Mark Smithers
I’ve worked with several traditional higher education institutions over the last few years that have been in the process of building a capability for …
Higher Education Goes Digital, Deepening Student Engagement
Forbes - Hugo Moreno
The current generation of digitally savvy students have been passively trained by years of social media, e-commerce and online entertainment to expect a high-level user experience in all their digital
The Biggest Misconception About Today’s College Students
The New York Times - By GAIL O. MELLOW
You might think the typical college student lives in a state of bliss, spending each day moving among classes, parties and extracurricular activities. But the reality is that an increasingly small population
Higher Education
New data explain Republican loss of confidence in higher education
insidehighered.com
Not only do Republicans and Democrats have different levels of confidence in higher education, but they are coming at the issue by focusing on …
Universities scramble to fill places, with Russell group still making offers
The Guardian - Richard Adams Education editor
As one institution makes clearing offers via Snapchat, overall number of acceptances to British universities declines Universities are scrambling to fill their undergraduate courses for the coming year,
41,000 former students of a closed for-profit college may get $183 million to pay off their student loans
Business Insider - Abby Jackson
Aequitas funded loans to former Corinthian College students, with the knowledge that they were likely to default, the government claims. Former Corinthian students will receive $183 million once the settlement
Here’s how to recoup the cost of a college degree in 2.6 years or less
CNBC - Shawn M. Carter
Earning a college degree can be expensive. The average cost of one year at a public university for in-state students is more than $20,000, College …
Universities to be stopped from sidelining British students for foreign teens who can pay more
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
Universities admissions will be monitored from next year to ensure British students are not being discriminated against in favour of foreign applicants who can pay more. An investigation by The Sunday
The Problem With Helicopter Colleges
The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf
The Harvard professor Steven Pinker objects to a proposal to ban various undergraduate social clubs, citing a model of higher education that many elite institutions are rejecting. As a coda to yesterday’s
¿Cuáles son las mejores universidades españolas?
lavanguardia.com - Redacción
La Universitat Pompeu Fabra, la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya y la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona lideran, por este orden, el ranking de …
52 cosas que no sabíamos cuando empezó 2016
Verne - Ediciones El País
Si es verdad que no te acostarás sin saber una cosa más, deberíamos haber aprendido 366 cosas en 2016 (no olvidemos que era un año bisiesto). Por si …
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Competencia examinará por primera vez el sistema universitario español
elespanol.com
José María Marín Quemada, el presidente de la Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), quiere examinar el sistema universitario …
La Universidad Complutense quiere reducir sus departamentos de 185 a 72
cadenaser.com - Adela Molina
Sobran departamentos en la Complutense. Es lo que piensa el actual equipo rector que ha presentado a los decanos una propuesta -que aún es una …
I+D+i. en España ¿se hacen milagros con la poca inversión?
articulosclaves.blogspot.com
– En 2012, España invirtió 286€ por habitante en I+D+i. – En España se invierten más de 13.000 millones de euros en actividades de I+D+i...
El precio del grado en España es 20 veces más caro que en Alemania
elmundo.es - OLGA R. SANMARTÍN Madrid @olgarsanmartin
La matrícula de la carrera en Cataluña es tres veces mayor que en Galicia Desde 2012, la matrícula del grado ha subido un 32% y la del máster, un 75% …
La universidad menosprecia la docencia (post-486)
amaliorey.com - Amalio Rey
En un post anterior (¿Debemos ser tan radicales en la innovación educativa?) reivindicaba la figura del docente, profesor o profesora como una pieza …
Monográfico: Revistas científicas
universoabierto.org - Julio Alonso Arévalo
Descargar monográfico Otros monográficos sobre Bibliotecas y Documentación MONOGRÁFICOS SOBRE BYD Una revista científica es una «publicación periódica» …