By making what the minister considers a “very small cut”, it will be impossible for universities to conduct daily operations at even minimal standards of quality. More...
11 juin 2019
11 juin 2019
Mexican Higher Education: From Mass to Universal to Compulsory?
Earlier posts in this column have discussed the outlook for higher education in Latin America and last week, Rodriguez Gomez and Maldonado-Maldonado reviewed Mexico’s proposed policies,where last month federal and state legislatures passed Constitutional reforms with major implications for the educational system. More...
11 juin 2019
Walking Toward the Cliff
Measures recently enacted by the President of Brazil raise serious concerns about the future of higher education. More...
11 juin 2019
How I Retreat and Regroup
For the last five years or so I've been taking myself on solitary writing retreats at the beginning of every summer. Usually, I have some kind of conceptual problem that I have to solve and that requires both direct contemplation and general rumination while I'm doing other things, but not interrupted by household obligations or interactions even with my beloved spouse. More...
11 juin 2019
What I'm Reading This Week: May 20, 2019
All of a sudden, it’s summer on my campus and to officially mark the launch of “summer,” it hit 84 degrees in Boston yesterday. More...
11 juin 2019
Talent Is Abundant
By John Warner. Yes, it's hard to write a 10,000 word magazine piece, but the talent to do it is not rare. More...
11 juin 2019
The Limits of Economic Analysis
By John Warner. Two stories from yesterday touched on one of my pet topics, namely the limits of economic modes of analysis to explain human behavior in consumer contexts. More...
11 juin 2019
Stop Surveilling Students
By John Warner. Spying on students is not conducive to their learning, their emotional development or anything else we wish for them. And yet, it's becoming ubiquitous. More...
11 juin 2019
Harvard Is Bad at Management
By John Warner. Shuffling your best employees out the door on a rigid timeline doesn't sound Harvard Business School approved to me. More...
11 juin 2019
Making Sense of Metrics
By John Warner. Some preliminary thoughts after a conference on finding a better way to measure institutions and learning. More...
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