No todas las personas disfrutan de las mismas posibilidades de accesibilidad en su día a día. No tenemos necesariamente la misma capacidad para acercarnos a los productos, servicios y entornos existentes en cualquier sociedad, sean estos, entre otros, de carácter urbanístico, arquitectónico, audiovisual, relacionados con el transporte o con la comunicación. More...
¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de divulgación?
Cuando hablamos de divulgación, hablamos de decir más veces "sí" que "no". De leer una noticia y estar deseosos de contarla. De buscar información rigurosa y variada para transmitirla de una forma veraz. De utilizar un lenguaje que cualquiera pueda entender y hasta emocionarse. More...
Una guía para reconocer y valorar la divulgación de la ciencia
La CRUE Universidades Españolas ha presentado recientemente la “Guía de Valoración de la Actividad de Divulgación Científica del Personal Académico e Investigador”. Este documento pretende ser una herramienta útil para reconocer las actividades de divulgación y difusión social del conocimiento en los procesos de evaluación del personal docente e investigador universitario. More...
Why universities need homerooms
What kind of education can give us hope for the future? As an experiential educator for the past 20 years who focused my doctoral research on school exclusion, this is a question close to my heart. More...
Why won’t Canada collect data on race and student success?
Although the impact of income inequality and gender on education outcomes is much discussed in Canadian government-level policy debates, factors of race and racism are seldom measured or addressed. More...
Financial empowerment is the road to success for Indigenous youth
As well, Indigenous entrepreneurship, in general, but especially for youth, has been on the rise since 2000. That business arena is growing at a rate that is six times faster than entrepreneurship among non-Indigenous people. Indigenous entrepreneurs tend to be about 10 years younger than their non-Indigenous peers. More...
Less talk, more action: National Day of Remembrance on Violence Against Women
The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women falls on Dec. 6. The day, also called White Ribbon Day, was created by Canada’s Parliament in 1991 to mark the anniversary of the murders of 14 women — 13 of them engineering students — killed on that day in 1989 at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. More...
The promise of the “learn to code” movement
This week, educators, students and the public around the world are participating in Computer Science Education Week by organizing and leading one-hour coding tutorials. More...
The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians: what it is and why it needs updating
As a nation, we face a range of national and international challenges such as mobile populations, so-called “fake news”, youth radicalisation, religious fundamentalism and a decline in public confidence in political and social institutions. More...
Special pleading: free speech and Australian universities
The student stood, a little nervously, at the office door. Could he discuss his assessment for the semester? He laid out all his recent assignments, sadly none of them very well argued. More...