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Hello readers,
Like every Tuesday, we curated a selection of exciting stories on education and innovation. Enjoy your reading.
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The international higher-education company, Quacquarelli Symonds, which evaluates and ranks schools annually in the well-known QS World University Rankings, released the results of the latest ranking of employability of graduates.
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In an exclusive interview for The Observatory, Sabrina Seltzer, director of Open Innovation and EdTech Entrepreneurship at Tecnológico de Monterrey, shared her knowledge of the area.
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Tecnológico de Monterrey, together with 14 other prestigious institutions of higher education, has formed a global network of universities that collaborates with the UN and other international organizations to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through education, research, and social entrepreneurship.
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According to a professor and researcher in Psychology, it is necessary to analyze multidisciplinary proposals and strategies to face current social justice demands. Everyone in their professional areas can contribute to the analysis of these problems from a peace perspective.
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Stop Trying to Cultivate Student Leaders
Instead, tell students to embrace horizontal relationships of comradeship rather than vertical relations of hierarchy. (The Chronicle of Higher Education - paywall)
Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency
Universities’ carbon and environmental footprints are significant, and this alone should be a strong enough incentive to act. (Times Higher Education)
‘The way universities are run is making us ill’: inside the student mental health crisis
“One of the most worrying phenomena that many of us have witnessed in recent years is the rise of chronic anxiety, that afflicts some students so deeply that they feel unable to come to the campus at all.” (The Guardian)
The Case for Hiring Older Workers
The workforce is aging at a rapid rate, yet our career systems, pay systems, and recruitment and assessment systems are designed against hiring older people. (HBR)
You Can’t Save the Planet by Yourself
A study shows that the wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for almost 50 percent of global CO2 emissions. In contrast, the poorest emit only 10 percent and are the ones suffering the most from the effects of climate change. (Jacobin)
We ignore the past at our peril
Although history might not repeat itself, it often rhymes. (Nature)
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“Our results suggest that scientific formatting represents a loss of 52 hours, costing the equivalent of US$1,908 per researcher per year.”
Allana G. LeBlanc et al. published a paper on the "pernicious price of formatting" in scientific publishing. The researchers surveyed 372 scientists from 41 countries to uncover how much time people spend formatting their manuscripts for publishing. Turns out, it takes a lot of time.
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