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Is your degree program too complicated? Poor design and needless bloat are derailing students
This is an initiative needed worldwide! [A] new push involving dozens of colleges is attempting to untangle curricular complexity and encourage more professors to think about their role in retaining and graduating students. It is the latest in a series of projects to...
Long way to go for parity for women in leadership
The latest International Brief for Higher Education Leaders from the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), titled Women’s Representation in Higher Education Leadership Around the World, reveals the “unfinished”...
Rankings como referencia, no como obsesión
Comentario por Teodoro Luque, 21 mayo 2021. [L]os rankings son una herramienta a la que se puede sacar utilidad. No son sujetos que tengan derechos y obligaciones, quienes los utilizamos sí, y debiéramos ser cautelosos con su uso y evitar el abuso. Full text here.
US college’s student inventors gaining national attention
Paul Basken | Times Higher Education| We constantly underestimate the potential of undergraduate students by not giving them "real" problems to solve! For the past 20 years, Hulman Institute of Technology, a private rural campus of about 2,000 undergraduates, has been...
University reforms to ensure relevance to working life
Jan Petter Myklebust|University World News. (17 April 2021). The [Norwegian] government plans to encourage higher education to be more geared to employability and, in particular, ask the institutions to follow up the proposals in the government’s Digitalisation...
International Higher Education (IHE)
International Higher Education is the quarterly publication of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College (USA). A network of distinguished international scholars offers commentary and current information on key issues that shape higher education worldwide. IHE is translated into five languages.
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Revista de la Educación Superior en América Latina (ESAL)
ESAL se publica semestralmente, es de distribución gratuita y acceso abierto ESAL divulga temas de educación superior, basada en conocimiento científico, académico y profesional de alto nivel. Está dirigida a expertos y personas interesadas en la educación superior.