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La brecha entre la educación superior y el empleo puede haber existido desde hace mucho tiempo en el Perú, pues las universidades y los institutos no siempre se conectan con las empresas y organizaciones para captar sus demandas de personal y adecuar sus contenidos formativos. Sin embargo, a pesar del auge reciente experimentado en la oferta de educación superior como respuesta a la creciente demanda, la brecha persiste y hasta parece haberse ampliado....
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Learn all about life at Chicago Booth. This in-depth guide to the University of Chicago MBA program includes comprehensive information about the school's flexible core curriculum, recruiting success and student clubs, innovative new facilities, additional campuses and International MBA program. The Clear Admit School Guides go beyond each school's marketing message to give you the hard facts about a program, and then put these school-specific details...
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Put yourself in Palo Alto with this in-depth guide to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Learn about the school's new curriculum, ties with the Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial focus, special programs, student clubs and strong alumni network. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides,...
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The definitive guide to the Columbia Business School MBA program. Presents details of the school's core curriculum, domestic and international exchange opportunities, on-campus recruiting process, popular professors and access to business leaders in NYC. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School...
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The College Affordability Academy: A Blueprint for Counseling Families is for anyone involved in the college recruitment and enrollment process. The book provides information that high school and college administrators can use to advise prospective and current students and their families with unbiased information about enrolling in and paying for college. The book may be used as a stand-alone volume or to accompany the College Affordability Academy...
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Immerse yourself in everything that Wharton has to offer! Get the details on the program's hundreds of electives, recruiting success and abundance of professional clubs. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides, with their reliable, centralized information, to be a valuable and time-saving...
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Learn about one of the most student-driven b-schools in the top tier. This comprehensive guide to the Kellogg MBA program provides in-depth information on the school's academic offerings and special degree programs, leading professors, career placement record (in the Midwest and beyond), and pioneering emphasis on teamwork. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding...
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Desde hace mucho tiempo se viene hablando de la centralidad del libro de texto en el curriculo y de sus carencias, debilidades y exigencias. Poco, sin mebargo, se ha hecho en el contexto colombiano para abordar estas falencias desde la perspectiva de una teoría de lenguaje. Como respuesta a esta carencia, e colectivo Urdimbre, adscrito al Grupo de Investigación Lenguaje y Educación de la Universidad del Norte, presenta esta obra que busca concientizar...
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Competition only gets stiffer. Regardless of university or scholarship application, odds are always stacked against candidates, unless they are sufficiently prepared. To be sufficiently prepared, you need to know what your assessors are looking out for. What makes you stand out from the crowd? On 1 January 2014, more than two million Common Application forms were submitted in total for US university applications. Yes, two million. So there are about...
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This collection is a unique exploration of the quality assurance landscape in higher education in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It celebrates the "coming of age" of the quality assurance movement in the region by tracing the main currents of development in internal and external quality assurance. Pulling together articles by respected academics, practitioners and thought leaders from within higher education and industry, the collection explores fundamental...
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La investigación en educación lleva decenios rindiendo resultados notables, dirigidos básicamente a mejorar las maneras en las que se facilita el aprendizaje. Aprender, como caminar, es una destreza adquirida, pero cuando nos exigimos alcanzar en ella un dominio profundo, la investigación nos muestra que las estrategias más efectivas son, a menudo, contrarias al sentido común. Los estudiantes universitarios confían en técnicas de estudio que...
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Asistimos a la progresiva destrucción de la Universidad pública. Un proceso que, intensificado por las políticas de austeridad y recortes, ha alumbrado la emergencia de un nuevo modelo de Universidad de carácter mercantil. Ante esta situación urge elaborar un nuevo aparato conceptual y teórico para entender las dinámicas de transformación de las universidades a escala global. Así, la nueva Universidad-Empresa es el definitivo pulso lanzado...
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With funding cuts well under way and many institutions already promising to charge the maximum 9,000 pounds yearly tuition fee, university education for the majority is under threat. This book exposes the true motives behind the government's programme and provides the analytical tools to fight it.
Widespread student protests and occupations, often supported by staff, unions and society at large, show the public's opposition to funding cuts and...
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This book offers a fresh report and interpretation of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements: the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America, and South America.
Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance visits some of the hotspots of Christian university development, such as South Korea,...
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The Christian tradition provides a wealth of insight into perennial human questions about the shape of the good life, human happiness, virtue, justice, wealth and poverty, spiritual growth, and much else besides - and Christian scholars can do great good by bringing that rich tradition into conversation with the broader culture. But what is the nature and purpose of distinctively Christian scholarship, and what does that imply for the life and calling...
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This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country's skills development strategies. These are complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased...
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This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country's skills development strategies. These are complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased...
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Informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), Connected Science presents a new approach to college science education for the 21st century. This interdisciplinary approach stresses integrative learning and pedagogies that engage students through open-ended inquiry, compelling real-world questions, and data-rich experiences. Faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions present case studies based on research in the classroom,...
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En 1979, dentro del marco de la celebración de los cien años del natalicio del general Emiliano Zapata Salazar, la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM) crea e inicia el programa educativo de Ingeniería en Desarrollo Rural (IDR).
En efecto, al ser Morelos la cuna del agrarismo, se planteaba una carrera que recogiera los ideales del movimiento zapatista y las demandas más sentidas del campesinado y que se orientara hacia la solución...
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In Christ across the Disciplines a group of distinguished scholars from across the theological spectrum explores the dynamic relationship between the Christian faith and the life of the mind. Although the essays in this volume are rooted in a rich understanding of the past, they focus primarily on how Christian students, teachers, and scholars might best meet the challenges of intellectual and cultural life in a global world.
This book ranges widely...
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