Category: Educação Superior

Mar 31

International Higher Education: Sustaining Quality and Massification: Is It Possible?

Full article published at International Higher Education, No. 80, Spring 2015. Higher education has experienced rapid expanding enrollment worldwide for the last 40 years. This growth will probably continue for the next 20 years, with predictions of 400 million students in 2030 (compared with 100 million in 2000). Is it possible to make this massification more equitable, …

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Feb 25

The World View: Will Professors Teach Differently in 10 Years?

Unfortunately, my guess is that the answer to this question is a sound “NO”. Despite continuous claims of a revolution in classroom teaching strategies, the advent of massive on-line open courses, and the huge expansion in the use of technological devices (cell phone, computers, tablets, etc), in most higher education institutions (HEIs) around the world …

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Jan 13

To Evaluate Obama’s Free-College Proposal, Look for Lessons Abroad

The Chronicle of Higher Education January 13th, 2015 By Karin Fischer In proposing to make community college free for millions of Americans, President Obama would buck global trends. Over the last two decades, almost every country that has taken up tuition policy has moved to charge fees, not to rescind them. Most notably, universities in Britain, …

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Dec 07

Danger Ahead for the State Universities in São Paulo State

I will discuss a rather delicate issue that is now happening in the state of São Paulo that, in my opinion, puts at risk the huge effort made in the last 50-60 years to build an excellent public university system. The topic is complex because it is related to salaries, and, in a country with …

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Oct 10

Brazil faces the challenge to improve the quality and offer in Higher Education

Opinion article published at Jornal Público, de Portugal, 10/08/2014. See the complete article here.