What if privatising higher education becomes an issue? The case of Chile and Mexico     

Gustavo Gregorutti  Oscar Espinoza  Luis Eduardo González  Javier Loyola 《Compare》2016,46(1):136-158

Over the last 30 years, Chile and Mexico have been implementing neoliberal policies to reform their higher education systems. This report compares the development and impact of those policies within three main areas in both countries, namely: (1) trends and characteristics of the growing private higher education sector, (2) commercialisation and business-like trends that private academia is experiencing and, finally, (3) it discusses how all this has created tensioning situations with assessment and accrediting agencies to ensure quality in their private higher education systems. This study shows that private higher education is facing the following challenges in both nations: (1) an uncritical implementation of neoliberal policies, (2) that there is a very unregulated legislation that has allowed many private institutions to profit within loopholes in the law, (3) that quality has become a central concern and some of the mechanisms applied to correct it have not been effective, showing a lack of a comprehensive system of quality assessment, and (4) that enrolment has grown but with several mismatches that challenge the initial goal of advancing economic development through human resources capacities. Alternative policies are discussed.  相似文献   

Quality Assurance, Legal Reforms and the European Higher Education Area in Spain   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Javier Vidal 《European Journal of Education》2003,38(3):301-313

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Avoiding communication barriers in the classroom: the APEINTA project     

Ana Iglesias  Javier Jiménez  Pablo Revuelta  Lourdes Moreno 《Interactive Learning Environments》2016,24(4):829-843

Education is a fundamental human right, however unfortunately not everybody has the same learning opportunities. For instance, if a student has hearing impairments, s/he could face communications barriers in the classroom, which could affect his/her learning process. APEINTA is a Spanish educational project that aims for inclusive education for all. This project proposes two main accessible initiatives: (1) real-time captioning and text-to-speech (TTS) services in the classroom and (2) accessible Web-learning platform out of the classroom with accessible digital resources. This paper presents the inclusive initiatives of APEINTA. Also an evaluation of the into-the-classroom initiative (real-time captioning and TTS services) is presented. This evaluation has been conducted during a regular undergraduate course at a university and during a seminar at an integration school for deaf children. Forty-five hearing students, 1 foreign student, 3 experts in captioning, usability and accessibility, and 20 students with hearing impairments evaluated these services in the classroom. Evaluation results show that these initiatives are adequate to be used in the classroom and that students are satisfied with them.  相似文献   

Temperament Predicts Processing Speed in Low Socioeconomic Status Rural Preschoolers     

Maria Julia Hermida  Maria Soledad Segretin  Diego Edgar Shalom  Matías Lopez‐Rosenfeld  Marcelo Claudio Abril  Sebastin Javier Lipina  Mariano Sigman 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2020,14(1):61-70

Extreme poverty all over the world is concentrated in rural settings. However, studies about cognition in low socioeconomic status (SES) children are for the most part conducted in urban populations. This paper investigates, in a poor rural sample, what are the individual and socioenvironmental variables that make the difference in performance in a processing speed task. Forty four 5‐year‐old children were evaluated with a processing speed task; individual and socioenvironmental information was obtained from parents' interviews. Higher scores in the effortful control dimension of temperament were associated with higher performance in the processing speed task. No other individual or socioenvironmental variable predicted the performance. These results showed that effortful control is important in processing speed and suggest that in low SES rural contexts, low effortful control children would require stronger interventions.  相似文献   

The research environment of universities     

Javier Vidal  Miguel Quintanilla 《Tertiary Education and Management》2013,19(3):183-189

Part‐time study is one of the foci of the widening participation agenda in the UK. The experiences of part‐time students, however, have received remarkably little attention from scholars, especially in a comparative context. This paper explores existing historical data going back over a decade to identify the main themes of part‐time experience at a number of UK higher education institutions and how it compares and contrasts with the full‐time experience. The surveys use the Student Satisfaction Approach. The main themes emerging from institutional survey data over time are the work/family/study balance, assessment and feedback, access to learning and catering resources, and students' financial situation. There is sometimes a question of identity, but unlike many studies of part‐time student experience, which focus on aspects of disadvantage, social, and cultural capital, the data for this paper indicate that many part‐time students have a sense of themselves as being ignored or at worst marginalised in contemporary higher education.  相似文献   

Guidance services in Spanish universities     

Javier Vidal  Gloria Diez  Maria J. Vieira 《Tertiary Education and Management》2013,19(4):267-280

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Brief Report of the Granada,Spain Workshop,Biblioteca de Andalucia,Granada     

Javier Álvarez García  Pilar Tassara  Cristóbal Pasadas 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(4):286-291

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New Method for Historic Rammed-earth Wall Characterization: The Almohade Ramparts of Malaga and Seville     

Juan Jesús Martín-del-Rio  Vicente Flores-Alés  Francisco Javier Alejandre-Sánchez  Fco. Javier Blasco-López 《文物保护研究》2013,58(6):363-372

ABSTRACT

The goal of this research is to propose a new method of characterizing rammed-earth walls. Based on their historic building materials properties, five broad test groups were established for the characterization: chemical and mineralogical composition, physical properties, mechanical properties, particle size distribution, and dating. These determinations can, in turn, be grouped into two different types: instrumental techniques such as XRF, XRD, and SEM-EDX, as well as adaptations of standard methods (mainly UNE-EN standards) for application to these materials. As case studies where the proposed method is applied, we present our research on the rammed-earth walls in the ramparts of Seville and Malaga (Spain), clearly showing the method’s capacity for comparing and differentiating different rammed-earth walls.  相似文献   

Cómo mejorar la comprensión de textos en el aula     

Emilio Sánchez  José Orrantia  Javier Rosales 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(14):89-112

¿Qué ocurre cuando un niño comprende o no comprende? ¿Cómo se explica psicológicamente el proceso de comprensión de un texto? Después de aportar una base a ese nivel, el autor construye sobre ella en este artículo un programa de instrucción para mejorar las habilidades de comprensión y un método de evaluación de esas habilidades.  相似文献   

Reading together in the classroom. A study of the difference between teacher and student interactions and the requirements of the Ministry of Education in Chile / Lectura conjunta en el aula. Un estudio sobre la distancia entre la interacción profesores alumnos y las prescripciones del Ministerio de Educación Chileno     

Carolina Iturra  Javier Rosales 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(1):64-92

Abstract

In this article we describe the reading comprehension teaching practices of three Chilean teachers, to contrast them with the proposed guidelines from the Chilean Ministry of Education. To do this, we have analysed what contexts of interaction were created in the classroom and which reading processes were promoted by the questions the students were asked. The results show how the teachers’ practices were closer to the ministerial guidelines when they were asked to create specific contexts of interaction, but deviated from these guidelines when the objective was to promote a reflective and critical understanding of the texts.  相似文献