Katy Fox-Hodess, Department of Sociology University of California at Berkeley Francisco Nuñez Capriles, Department of History, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Last month, following winter break, Chilean high school and university students across the country have once again occupied their schools, the latest upsurge in a powerful student movement that began in May of 2011. [...]

El movimiento estudiantil chileno ha sido todo un hito dentro de la movilización social de la post-dictadura y ha logrado sumar a mayorías estudiantiles a un proceso de cuestionamiento de algunas de las bases estructurales del sistema educacional vigente. Si tuviéramos que definir los elementos centrales de las demandas de los estudiantes, podríamos encontrar de [...]

By Barbara Dickhaus, Kassel University, Germany There has been a global move towards new accountability regimes in higher education in recent years, promoted by US-American or European actors as well as by International Organizations like the World Bank or UNESCO. External quality assurance (QA) policies of universities like accreditations and audits reflect a paradigmatic shift [...]