Americans are enrolling in computer coding "boot camps" in record numbers, but a CBS News investigation uncovers problems at Woz U, one of the field's newest and most recognizable programs. Woz U was created by Steve Wozniak, best known for founding Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976. More...
04 novembre 2018
The workforce imperative drives universities’ planning
Over many decades various benefits have been ascribed to a university degree, beginning with land grant universities signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. More...
The role of higher ed in a 'post-truth' era
From the Ancient Greeks to educational reformer John Dewey, and from the suffrage and civil rights movements to modern issues of inequality, educated citizens have played a key role in participatory democracy. More...
Some former students, employees say Apple co-founder's Woz U doesn't live up to promises
03 novembre 2018
Michael Young and the perils of meritocracy
Readers respond to Kwame Anthony Appiah’s long read on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy, published 60 years ago. More...
Re-education camps for Chinese students
Re the detention camps in Xinjiang (Internment camps give Uighurs ‘training’, China’s governor says, 17 October), similar camps were established when the communists took over China in 1949 for returning students from the west. More...
Violences scolaires : en 1883 déjà, au lycée Louis‑le‑Grand
Trois cents élèves « insurgés » se rendent dans les dortoirs : les vitres, les vases de nuit, les lavabos sont cassés et jetés, les matelas sont éventrés à coups de couteau. Les agents de police, renforcés par des troupes nouvelles (ils sont alors soixante) bloquent les « émeutiers » dans un dortoir. Armés de tessons de vase et de barres de fer arrachés aux lits, les élèves se battent contre eux. Les dégâts matériels sont évalués à 20 000 francs or, soit le revenu annuel moyen de 10 enseignants. Les sanctions suivent rapidement : 89 élèves sont exclus définitivement de Louis-le-Grand et 13 autres de tous les lycées de Paris. Des mesures qui n’empêcheront toutefois pas une autre révolte, cinq ans plus tard. Plus...Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact
When protesters tore down the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Aug. 20, it wasn’t just destruction of state property - a crime for which the protesters are now being investigated. More...1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to ‘Gym Crow’ and got worldwide attention
This is what Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party affiliate H. Rap Brown told a crowd of Harlem residents at a community rally in February 1967. More...
British Empire is still being whitewashed by the school curriculum – historian on why this must change
These are students who are educated through a school history curriculum that focuses almost entirely on English political and religious history – with bits of 20th-century European history thrown in. These are the bits with figures who can easily be cast as “evil” – Hitler or Stalin, for example. The students who I encounter know very little about Britain’s past, let alone Britain’s connections with the wider world or the history of the world outside Europe. More...
La Universidad debe enseñar a pensar y resolver problemas
Hace 2,5 millones de años surgió el género Homo en África, donde 2 millones de años después evolucionó el denominado Homo Sapiens. Según los actuales registros disponibles, hace aproximadamente 12.000 años se produjeron los primeros asentamientos estables. El paso de los cazadores-recolectores a agricultores y ganaderos trajo las primeras formas de sociedad y, con ellas, la especialización en los trabajos. Más...
