Wednesday, October 27, 2010

My Daughter Works As A Bartender In A Strip Club

University: a public or private? Call

The newspaper El Pais today published on its online edition an article that reflects on the debate that is beginning in Europe from the UK's decision to raise rates paid for enrollment in the English universities, a comparative analysis in the rest of Europe, noting that there is a variety of situations ranging from completely free, through selective or mixed models as English has decided to charge a higher rate for repeaters.
Essentially the debate focuses on whether the benefits of a university student who has an individual character and staff who obtained a university degree, or conversely, provides public benefits for society.
In analyzing this issue is inevitable to refer to the contributions of Howard Bowen respect to public benefits and private, individual and social if you will, arising from the transit of a person by the university, developing an array of benefits that a party raises the existence of public and private benefits, while the other identifies the generation of economic and social benefits provided by higher education. Even recently through a discourse analysis we reviewed the strategic plans of some universities to identify the type of benefits trying to reach higher education institutions.
However, intermediate positions have always existed to consider higher education as well mixed or semi public, in terms of personal and social benefits it provides, and also a merit good, ie those in which is difficult to assess their benefits in the long run, improve the distribution of wealth and where exclusion is not desirable in terms of consumption.
Thus arises this whole debate references to the systems of financing of higher education and scholarship and student support, especially regarding the role they must meet the state funding of universities and how much you payable by students for college.
In my personal opinion, public universities should be funded accordingly by the State, where students pay only a minimum of administrative fees but not the cost of borrowing each curriculum. Once graduated and inserted into the working world, graduates and professionals must begin to pay out of earnings received funding in their student years, adjusted for CPI values.
An important qualification that this mechanism would only be applicable for any credits or courses completed at the first opportunity, the repeaters must pay the costs incrementally if they should take a course two or more times, so apply the model in Spain I think in that sense successful.
Another issue is to analyze why students repeat, especially when it is due largely to the work which may academics do, for which they should also consider measures for teachers with high failure rates in their courses, which in my personal opinion is a clear indicator of a bad job on their part.


Thursday, October 21, 2010

Implantation For Twins

results of the Campus of International Excellence. V Congress

According to the Ministry of Education English, Campus of Excellence International (CEI) are "knowledge ecosystem" comprised of university strategic aggregations and other institutions such as corporations and hospitals to promote employment, social cohesion and economic development territorial.
Under this concept have been released today the decision of the International Committee responsible for evaluating each of the 49 projects submitted for this second call, determining that eight of them were finally selected as CIS, and in which invested nearly 32 billion euros, with the aim of improving the quality and competitiveness of universities associated with each project, within the main objectives of the Strategy 2015 University to which belongs the initiative of the CIS.
However, it is important to highlight the fact that resources for these projects are not without financial cost but transfer credits, universities or autonomous regions to which they belong will be returned after the third year of the project, as we said today El Pais.
Another aspect that stands out is the fact that in this second call has expanded the geographical areas that received a CIS, since the first version of this program were only benefited projects in Madrid and Barcelona, \u200b\u200bhowever on this occasion projects were also selected Andalucía, Valencia and the Basque Country as well as a joint project between the communities of Aragon, Navarra and La Rioja.
also benefited other six projects rated by Campus International Excellence in the European regional level, which this program of the University Strategy 2015 provided a total of 75 million euros for a total of 14 projects selected in this competition 2010.
Thus, the challenge is to position these CIS English universities to the level of the leading universities worldwide, and attempt to redress poor performance in recent years in various international rankings.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Heart Gold Rom England

University and Development Cooperation.

In previous entries I have argued that university development cooperation (CUD) is a potential area of \u200b\u200bfundamental and very necessary for universities expresen allí una parte importante de su responsabilidad social, especialmente en el caso de las instituciones universitarias de los países desarrollados.
Por ejemplo, el Observatorio para la CUD en España señala que los antecedentes de la CUD se relacionan con un conjunto de actividades desarrolladas por las universidades para la transformación social en los países más desfavorecidos, donde la cooperación bilateral o multilateral entre universidades, así como entre y otras instituciones públicas y privadas juega un papel muy relevante.
Además, el mismo OCUD nos señala que durante el año 2009 las universidades españolas aumentaron levemente los resources by these institutions to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a demonstration of the importance for universities issues of cooperation, despite the crisis and budget cuts.
In this context, it seems important to provide information regarding the fifth version of the Congress " University and Development Cooperation, to be held in Cadiz days 06 al April 8, 2011 organized by the consortium of public universities Andalusia.
The main theme of this new version is "The University Development Cooperation and the challenges of a world in crisis", structuring in four major areas or themes that give life to the usual communications, posters, plenary sessions and other activities listed in the agenda of the Congress for this opportunity.
One very important thing to note is that the deadline for submitting paper or poster proposals expires on November 15, 2010, in accordance with schedule and rules governing this activity.
Thus, it seems important to bring a bit to encourage interested both in the theme of the CUD and the RSU to prepare any type of paper or poster to participate in this interesting event. I leave you this video I found on Youtube on international cooperation.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Convert A Sunken Tub To A Walk-in Shower

Tell me how much public and tell you who you are.

Using an adaptation of the popular saying "tell me how public and tell you who you are" may be a general conclusion of the article published today by El Pais on the results of ranking SIR international universities, and posed as the main thought that although English universities published in a volume or significant number, 10 th place worldwide in terms of scientific output, but nevertheless the quality of those same publications less relevant given that the production ranks only 21 th place when talking about the impact in terms of citations received these papers published.
Overall, universities worldwide have been found in international rankings valuable validation tool, marketing and catalyst as compared to other higher education institutions worldwide in order to establish a classification of universities according to the quality of its academic, and there are currently many rankings such as the Shanghai or The Times that provide different rankings worldwide and scientific fields.
Turning to publications, it is clear that this is one of the important tasks of a university professor and becomes the result of research that each catadrático done during the year and allow you to submit articles to journals, papers or communications to Congress or publish books.
Thus, this type of ranking is placing "naked" those universities or scientific fields that are more productive when analyzing his work, although it is common to find multiple debates posed stances contrary the rankings of universities as to according to its perception there are aspects of university life that are not susceptible to quantify.
In my humble opinion, using a scheme proposed many years ago by Ortega y Gasset in his book Mission of the University, these institutions have two main purposes: (1) the teaching of intellectual professions, and (2) the scientific research and the preparation of future researchers.
From these approaches, in my opinion are emerging as central indicators of university life two major aspects: (1) the employability of its graduates, among other indicators not only show the quality of training and teaching each college, but his ability to create networks so that their graduates are inserted in the workplace, and (2) the ability to create and transmit knowledge to society, which again will be indicators that the aforementioned task refereed publications base that underpins many of the aforementioned international rankings, but also should be noted, the ability to transfer this knowledge to industry, governments and local society.
Therefore, a quality university is one that achieves its graduates are inserted into the working world within short time frames, and produces and communicates new knowledge to society, what the rankings say only partially reflected in the latter.