1 octobre 2016
1 octobre 2016
Friday Fragments - September 29, 2016
By Matt Reed. Marketplace’s story on Rochester this week really took me back. It’s about the impact of the demise of Kodak as a local employer, both in terms of numbers (from over 60,000 to under 2,000) and in terms of perks and local clout. More...
1 octobre 2016
What Colombia Gets Right — and Doesn’t
By Liz Reisberg. Colombia has been on the path toward developing a sophisticated, diversified and equitable system of higher education for many years. This is promising but there are many shortcomings in policy and practice. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
Singapore Reflections
By Philip G. Altbach. Education is education, and skills will come along with it, or are supplementary to it. The labor market changes so rapidly; thus people have to be trained for broader thinking in order to be adaptable. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling in Canadian Higher Ed
By Saturnin Ndandala. In Canada, women represent only 21.8% of full professors while constituting 36% of associate professors, 43% of assistant professors, and 60% of university student populations. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
Assessment of Teaching in Determining Institutional Excellence
By Goolam Mohamedbhai. Almost all the global rankings of universities claim that they assess institutions across all the institutional core missions, including teaching. And prospective undergraduate students are invariably influenced by the global rankings in choosing the university where they want to study. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
Corruption in Higher Ed: Canada in the Crosshairs
By Mel Broitman. It is overwhelmingly evident that there is a remarkable and callous disregard for academic ethics and standards in a scramble by Canadian universities to sign up foreign students. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
Tuition in South Africa: Economics, Politics, and Defiance
By Damtew Teferra. The South African higher education sector has been in paralysis for a while and now engulfed in student protests. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
"Life Doesn't Have Safe Spaces"... Bulls__t.
By John Warner. College campuses are very safe spaces for some.
When it comes to the campus debate on the use of "safe spaces," is there a more ridiculous statement than “life doesn’t have safe spaces”. Read more...
1 octobre 2016
Why and How One Instructor Uses Trigger Warnings
By John Warner. That instructor would be me.
I give my students lots of “heads-ups.”
For example, I tell them when I think an assignment might be harder than they’re anticipating and need more of their attention. Read more...
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