University recruiters are taking bribes, say Indian agents
Education agents in India are concerned about the spread of unethical practices among university recruitment teams working in the country, including alleged incidents of bribery, favouritism and conflicts of interest. Multiple agents told The PIE that they were aware...
Latin America University Rankings 2022: down but not out – a view from Venezuela
Higher education in Venezuela has suffered with the rest of the country, but Juan Carlos Navarro identifies pockets of hope in the sector. Click title for link to full text. Full text here.
Effective Communication: The 4th Mission of Universities—a 21st Century Challenge
New collaboration with Marcelo Knobel and published by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC-Berkely. The critical role of communication is usually overlooked by higher education institutions. Here we argue that higher education institutions must consider...
The Fast Track to New Skills : Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report from The World Bank is a very important read. Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has expanded dramatically in the new millennium, yet enrollment in short-cycle programs (SCPs) is still relatively low. Shorter and more practical than...
Agents are the problem
My latest collaboration with Philip Altbach, an opinion piece published in Inside Higher Education. If universities are going to persist in signing contracts with third-party recruiters, then it is imperative that the experiences of international students placed by...
Mesa redonda sobre los próximos diez años de la educación superior en América Latina
Una conversación entre Simon Schwartzman, Flavio Felipe Figallo Rivadeynera, Juan David Parra, Yezid Orlando Perez Alemán, y Iván Pacheco. Se la puede encontrar en el link abajo. Mesa Redonda
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...