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15 mai 2017

Universities welcome new research chair selection rules

Universities say they welcome the challenge from Ottawa to improve diversity among the ranks of the Canada Research Chairs, under threat of funding cuts, writes Chris Hannay for The Globe and Mail. More...

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15 mai 2017

Public universities launch largest strike in 12 years

Public universities in Argentina last week launched the largest university strike in the last 12 years to demand that President Mauricio Macri set aside a higher budget for education as the government continues to prioritise an austerity agenda, reports TeleSUR. More...

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15 mai 2017

At the vanguard of an HE privatisation wave?

By Marcelo Knobel and Robert Verhine. Brazil has the world’s ninth largest gross domestic product, a population of around 195 million inhabitants, distributed in more than five thousand cities in 26 states and one federal district. The country has an unusual higher education system, with a relatively small number of public research universities and a large number of private institutions. More...

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15 mai 2017

A monstrous muddle of no-profit and for-profit HE

By Liz Reisberg and Philip G Altbach. Purdue University, an institution among America’s most respected research universities, has announced it is buying the for-profit Kaplan University. More...

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15 mai 2017

Is Trump stifling science-based policy-making at EPA?

By Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Trump administration’s removal of several academic experts from a scientific advisory board at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, has renewed concern about the government’s commitment to fact-based policy-making. More...

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9 mai 2017

Investing in America’s data science and analytics talent

The skills gap is set to widen unless there are systematic ways to address it. We see eight actions to take now.
Today’s tight market for data science and analytics (DSA) skills involves data scientists, but it extends much further to existing job classifications from the C-suite to frontlines—all of which are increasingly enabled by analytics. More...

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8 mai 2017

Does everybody enjoy Pura Vida? Decomposing income inequality in Costa Rica

Posted by oecdecoscope. Despite strong economic growth, Costa Rica’s income inequality has increased in the past decade, in stark contrast with other Latin American countries (OECD, 2016 and González Pandiella and Gabriel, 2017). More...

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2 mai 2017

Can 'slow' education fix our broken college system?

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The academy has moved to the fast lane. Corporatization has sped up the clock, compromising teaching, scholarship and collegiality. The "slow movement" — originating in slow food — challenges the frantic pace and homogenization of contemporary culture. More...

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2 mai 2017

Legislature needs to invest in higher ed infrastructure

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. As another session of the General Assembly soon draws to a close, it’s worth noting that for the first time in many years the state’s colleges and universities are unified in making a single piece of legislation a top priority — the capital improvement bond bill for higher education (House Bill 3722). More...

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2 mai 2017

All Chicago's Urban Prep Academies seniors admitted to college

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Students at Urban Prep Academies are making Chicago proud. For the eighth consecutive year, 100 percent of the school's seniors have been admitted to college. More...

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