By . The Mexican economy has benefited from strong fundamentals. A strong macroeconomic policy framework has underpinned moderate growth, in the face of a number of shocks the economy has experienced in the recent past. Monetary policy has successfully tamed inflation and prudent fiscal policy has halted the rise in the debt-to-GDP ratio. More...
Earlier this year, students from 112 countries across the world skipped school to join the School Strike for Climate and demand government action on climate change. The strike, initiated by the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, came amid reports that climate change appears to be accelerating, and that urgent action is needed to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. More...
ERA objectives have stressed the importance of gender equality in research, at the three levels of fostering equality in scientific careers, achieving gender balance in decision making and integrating a gender dimension in research content. More...
The deadline for registering to vote in the 2019 European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom is 7 May. EUA member Universities UK has put together some suggestions for promoting voter registration among students. More...
The ELIA Academy, co-hosted by Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, and State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, showcases innovative teaching and learning practices in higher arts education and bring together lecturers and students from Europe and beyond. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Freakonomics and Complexity
Dave Pollard's review of Freakonomics by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner is worth a read. What I like is the discussion of complex (as opposed to merely complicated) systems and the need for pattern recognition. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Schools Need to Get Up to Speed
My own view is pretty much in line with this: "we should embrace our confrontation with nudity, sex, drugs, violence, and spam in an institutional context as a positive thing, an opportunity to teach and learn and grow". More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. An Overview of E-Portfolios
Overview of e-portfolios with links to quite a number of examples. Dave Tosh (of elgg) comments, "These papers are starting to get very boring. It has a few example e-portfolios towards the end but there is nothing new here for those who have been following e-portfolios over the past couple of years... If you have never heard of e-portfolios give it a read but don't look to this paper for any new insight." In annoying PDF. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Yahoo!360 - Home
Yahoo! 360 has opened up to external content, which is good. But does this mean, as Albert Delgado says, that "the 'walled garden' concept is finally and officially dead?" It's a step in the right direction. But I notice all my 'contacts' are people with Yahoo360 accounts - and there doesn't seem to be a way to create as a contact someone's Flickr account or Orkut account. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Internet Literacies in the Classroom
You will be able to breeze through these slides in five minutes or so, but do take the time to have a look. Will Richardson is able to put together nicely the ideas of new digital literacies and the read-write web. More...
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