Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Chaque cursus de licence, comme chaque parcours étudiant au sein de l’université, doit être désormais modulable en fonction des acquis et des besoins des étudiants. Les doubles licences constituent un exemple de pédagogie innovante qui a pu être développée. Plus...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Construire une formation santé pour un droit à la santé pour tous, texte de Jacques Haiech, Université de Strasbourg (Laboratoire d’innovation thérapeutique) publié avec l’autorisation de l’auteur. Plus...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Élections des conseils centraux de l’université de Bordeaux, le 5 décembre prochain. Les résultats de ces élections vont s’avérer cruciaux : ils peuvent tuer le modèle de l’université gouvernée par les enseignants et les chercheurs, et faire naître une gouvernance dirigée par des personnalités extérieures non élues. Plus...
By . I am getting pretty sick of AI hype. It’s not that I think AI is without value or a mirage or anything, but I think people are getting weirdly reluctant to challenge even the most obviously nonsensical claims about the industry. But, since apparently others don’t seem to want to play skeptic on this, I guess I’m “it”. More...
By . Translate this to higher education savings and you get something like the following: lower-income families do not think long-term about investing in human capital because they have so little long-term capital to play with. But give them some capital – say $500 at the birth of a child – and they will start to have longer-term horizons and be encouraged to save and help their kid in planning for education. And so the idea of the CLB was born. More...
By . All the really interesting news about tuition these days is happening south of the equator–let’s catch up.
Chile. When last we checked in on things in Santiago, we noted how President Bachelet’s gratuidad program had kind of foundered on the rocks of reality. Having brought in free fees for the students in the bottom six income deciles at a cost of 607 billion pesos (roughly $1.25B Canadian), it turned out that the additional cost to make education free for the top four deciles would triple the cost. So they stopped. More...
By . Last week, I wrote a piece about how the professoriate is aging and how these aging professors are taking up an increasing fraction of university budgets. My back of the envelope calculation suggested that for the extra $1.15 billion we are spending on this group compared to 15 years ago, we might be able to hire as many as 10,000 new, younger profs and thus help renew the professoriate. More...
By . It’s the end of the year for us at HESA Towers today (at least as far as blogging goes). I know in the Scottish tradition, you’re supposed to use the end of the year for memories, but I kind of prefer the Japanese tradition of Bonenkai, or “forget-the-year”: basically, wipe out as many brain cells with alcohol and start the new year fresh. More...
By . Capitalism without Capital is the title of an intriguing new book from Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake. The book documents the rise of an economy where more and more value resides in intangibles rather than tangibles. More...
By . For fairly obvious reasons, nationalism has been on people’s minds in higher education lately. Nationalist/populists are on the loose, and their values and policies appear to be inimical to those of higher education. The standard higher education party line usually includes i) something about knowledge knowing no boundaries ii) some reference to the earliest universities in Italy where the student body was fully international and iii) something about building global understanding for peace/trade/development/whatever. More...
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