Posts Tagged ‘Educación Superior’
Economic Thinking, Economists’ Education and Human Rights
Economic thinking and education must have an approach that protects what really matters: human rights
Read MoreBetween All or Nothing
According to the government, the program “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) is an educational revolution.
Read MoreBlog to the Supporters of “Merit Pays”
The programs “Merit Pays” (Spanish “Ser Pilo Paga”) that the national government recently inaugurated has been met with differing reactions. The debate deals with two positions: on one hand, there are those that highlight its benefits: the program promotes the social mobility of a talented group of young people while it also installs greater diversity and inclusion in private universities. On the other hand, there are those who, like us, are not so convinced and argue that the program directs public funds to the private sector instead of strengthening public tertiary education and that it restricts access to university education to an exceptional minority of high school graduates, excluding the majority.
Read MoreThe Meritorious Students’ Scholarships
Last year I wrote a column in which I told Victor’s story, a young man from Aguadas (Caldas) whom I know since he was a little boy.
Read MoreLawyers and Sociologists
One would hope that there would be a certain correspondence between the diplomas that are awarded by universities and society’s needs.
Read MoreA new Latin American “boom”?
With García Márquez´departure went the last of the Latin American “boom.”
Read MoreLet’s Talk about Education
The most important questions and the best answers. A better country in the short or long term, one way or another, will come from reforming education in Colombia
Read MoreOnline education and the Classroom Dictatorship
Why do professors insist on teaching the same course over and over? When did teaching became “lecturing”?
Read MoreThe National University is Really in Crisis
The fact that more than half of the buildings of the main public university in Colombia are at high risk of vulnerability and four percent of them are in imminent risk of collapse generates indignation.
Read MoreScholars and Journalists
It is regrettable that the debate about academic fraud in Colombia has broken out surrounding the case of the scientist Raúl Cuero. But it would be even more regrettable if the debate turned against the researcher Rodrigo Bernal, who did nothing more than what his job demands: to rigorously investigate and publish what he finds (in this case, Cuero’s real record).
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