This document discusses the rise of meritocracy and inequality. It argues that the idea of meritocracy is used to justify growing inequalities, as resources are increasingly concentrated among a few based on measures of "merit" and "excellence". This is seen in higher education and research systems which are restructured according to rankings and quantitative evaluations. While metrics claim to measure quality, in reality they often only capture certain quantities. The document advocates for more diversity and risk-taking in research to enable disruptive discoveries, rather than focusing only on rewarding current "excellence".
READING PROFICIENCY OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: TOWARDS AN INTERVENTI...MIA SHARANNAH AMOR
Keywords: READING PROFICIENCY, LEAST MASTERED READING SKILLS,
SCHOOL-BASED READING INTERVENTION PROGRAM
The study sought to determine the reading proficiency of 296 Junior High School
students of Calaitan National High School in relation to the following profiles: ethnicity,
first language spoken, exposure to print and non-print reading materials, and grade level.
The least mastered reading skills were determined through the validated Reading
Proficiency Test that includes the skills on using phonetic analysis, using contextual
clues, using idioms, getting the main idea and identifying facts and opinions, predicting
outcomes, drawing conclusions, following directions, using parts of the book, and using
dictionaries, encyclopedia and other reference materials and using the internet.
Descriptive-developmental survey method was used in the study. The instrument used in
the study has two parts: the first part determines the profile of the respondents; and the
second part was the 50-item reading test of the thirteen skills being tested. The following
statistical treatment were used in the study: (1) percentage and frequency to describe the
profile of the respondents and (2) mean and mean percentage score (MPS) to determine
the least mastered reading skills (below 60 % MPS) of the respondents. The study
revealed that out of thirteen (13) reading skills, identifying facts and opinions fall under
beginning level with a mean percentage score of 27.75% and the rest of the skills are
under developing level. Their profiles particularly exposure to print and non-print reading
materials and grade level influence their reading proficiency level. The results of the study were considered in the development of the reading intervention program and the
reading materials that will be used in the conduct of the intervention. It is recommended
that the school administrator adopt the proposed reading intervention to aid the least
mastered reading skills of the junior high school students. Researchers are encouraged to
validate the content and usability of the reading materials as well as to conduct an action
research on the proposed intervention program.
Teaching as your vocation, mission and professionAiza Esguerra
The quality of our professional service is determined to a very great extent on our long and arduous period of preparation , continuing professional education and our commitment to ethical and moral values.
Orkun Oguz (CyVision): Critical Factors for the Mass Adaption of XRAugmentedWorldExpo
A talk from the Develop Track at AWE USA 2018 - the World's #1 XR Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California May 30- June 1, 2018.
Orkun Oguz (CyVision): Critical Factors for the Mass Adaption of XR
This session focuses on ‘Visual Comfort’ as an additional factor for the success of the XR industry looking at natural viewing experience, high latency and vergence & accommodation conflict and the need to present information with true depth cues even for one eye, which is required for comfortable viewing experience without any visual conflicts.
http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com
How research on research can help to inform and accelerate positive changes in research cultures. Stephen Curry, Assistant Provost for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Imperial
College & Chair, San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
READING PROFICIENCY OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: TOWARDS AN INTERVENTI...MIA SHARANNAH AMOR
Keywords: READING PROFICIENCY, LEAST MASTERED READING SKILLS,
SCHOOL-BASED READING INTERVENTION PROGRAM
The study sought to determine the reading proficiency of 296 Junior High School
students of Calaitan National High School in relation to the following profiles: ethnicity,
first language spoken, exposure to print and non-print reading materials, and grade level.
The least mastered reading skills were determined through the validated Reading
Proficiency Test that includes the skills on using phonetic analysis, using contextual
clues, using idioms, getting the main idea and identifying facts and opinions, predicting
outcomes, drawing conclusions, following directions, using parts of the book, and using
dictionaries, encyclopedia and other reference materials and using the internet.
Descriptive-developmental survey method was used in the study. The instrument used in
the study has two parts: the first part determines the profile of the respondents; and the
second part was the 50-item reading test of the thirteen skills being tested. The following
statistical treatment were used in the study: (1) percentage and frequency to describe the
profile of the respondents and (2) mean and mean percentage score (MPS) to determine
the least mastered reading skills (below 60 % MPS) of the respondents. The study
revealed that out of thirteen (13) reading skills, identifying facts and opinions fall under
beginning level with a mean percentage score of 27.75% and the rest of the skills are
under developing level. Their profiles particularly exposure to print and non-print reading
materials and grade level influence their reading proficiency level. The results of the study were considered in the development of the reading intervention program and the
reading materials that will be used in the conduct of the intervention. It is recommended
that the school administrator adopt the proposed reading intervention to aid the least
mastered reading skills of the junior high school students. Researchers are encouraged to
validate the content and usability of the reading materials as well as to conduct an action
research on the proposed intervention program.
Teaching as your vocation, mission and professionAiza Esguerra
The quality of our professional service is determined to a very great extent on our long and arduous period of preparation , continuing professional education and our commitment to ethical and moral values.
Orkun Oguz (CyVision): Critical Factors for the Mass Adaption of XRAugmentedWorldExpo
A talk from the Develop Track at AWE USA 2018 - the World's #1 XR Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California May 30- June 1, 2018.
Orkun Oguz (CyVision): Critical Factors for the Mass Adaption of XR
This session focuses on ‘Visual Comfort’ as an additional factor for the success of the XR industry looking at natural viewing experience, high latency and vergence & accommodation conflict and the need to present information with true depth cues even for one eye, which is required for comfortable viewing experience without any visual conflicts.
http://AugmentedWorldExpo.com
How research on research can help to inform and accelerate positive changes in research cultures. Stephen Curry, Assistant Provost for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Imperial
College & Chair, San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
We all talk about how important education is, but not necessarily what makes education high quality. This was originally a webinar for a national NGO, Women Graduates, about our work on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #4: Quality Education. It's based on bits and pieces of doctoral work at the University of California--Los Angeles, plus research on the UN campus in NYC.
Linking to Excellence: best practice in university/corporate partnershipsAlan Bruce
An overview of the themes, issues and strategies in developing university/corporate partnerships at a time of systemic change and pervasive technologies. Presented at the Pearson Colloquium for Brazilian higher education and university rectors in Campinas, Brazil (26.8.2014)
The Impact of World University Rankings on Research and Curriculum Developmen...Leslie Chan
The talk identifies the impact of “world university rankings” on research and curriculum development, particularly for universities in the global South. It is argued that relevance of local research and community engagement are better indicators of ‘excellence’ in the university and we need to rethink assumptions behind "objective" indicators that are underlying most of the major world rankings. These rankings have the effect of rendering research from the developing world invisible and dictating curriculum development oriented towards market needs of the global North. Such rankings thus represent a form of social and cognitive exclusion and institution of higher education should strongly resist this agenda, and formulate other forms of "excellence" based on social inclusion and community engagement.
This presentation discusses the state of art of Innovation in Education and goes beyond technical advances to include the changing students and educational paradigms. It encompasses a wide range of sources- please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Harassing with Numbers: the Uses and Abuses of Bureaucracy and BibliometryGiuseppe De Nicolao
by Giuseppe De Nicolao.
Presented at the 13th European Control Conference, Lunch Session - Friday, June 27, 2014 (http://www.ecc14.eu/lunch-sessions.html).
Quantitative measures of academic performance are playing an ever more important role in every day’s academic life. Numerical indicators are key ingredients of the "reputation race" exemplified by rankings of institutions, journals and researchers. In an era of budget cuts, institutions and individuals must also resort to quantitative indicators in order to prove "accountable" and justify their cost to the public. This may involve an excessive increase of bureaucratic burdens to the point of harming the overall efficiency of teaching and research. Moreover, the question arises whether scientific productivity of scholars can be quantitatively and accurately measured by means of individual bibliometry. In some countries, there is a clear trend towards the normative adoption of bibliometric indicators at all levels, ranging from national research assessments to decisions regarding individuals, such as hiring and promotion. Is this feasible? What are the caveats and ethical risks? What has the scientometric literature to say and what are the international experiences? After the fall of ebony towers are we doomed to a bureaucratic and bibliometric deluge?
Systemic Learning Analytics Symposium, October 10th 2013Adam Cooper
Slides for the talk "Barriers and Pitfalls to Systemic Learning Analytics" by Adam Cooper, Cetis, for the online Systemic Learning Analytics Symposium, organised by George Siements and held on October 10th 2013.
Related blog post at: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/adam/2013/10/31/policy-and-strategy-for-systemic-deployment-of-learning-analytics-barriers-and-potential-pitfalls/
See http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/adam/2013/10/31/policy-and-strategy-for-systemic-deployment-of-learning-analytics-barriers-and-potential-pitfalls/ for an extended blog post on the subject.
Presentación marco para una conversación con STEPS Centre sobre cómo lograr que las organizaciones trabajen en red, a partir de la experiencia en el itdUPM
Global Challenge, International Opportunity: Rehabilitation, Quality, Inclu...Alan Bruce
Presentation at NCRE Fall Conference in Washington, DC in November 2014. Focus on global dimesnions of rehabilitation education and international disability rights in professional best practice.
A presentation on the relationship of innovation, academic innovation, and how Seattle Pacific University's culture engages with and pushes against normative practices. Presented on 11/29/18 to the Faculty Senate
unimagined Shores: Jobless Futures and Digital GlobalizationAlan Bruce
Overview of the prfound and systemic changes in the job market and labor market access for marginaized groups, especially those impacted by disability. The presentation focuses on the impact of both globallization and new digital tecnologies. It posits a future where traditional jobs will disappear to be replaced by flexible employment structurres built around innovative socio-communicative competences and transferable methods of certification and accreditation.
Remapping the Global and Local in Knowledge Production: Roles of Open AccessLeslie Chan
It is generally acknowledged that researchers and institutions in the Global South suffer from knowledge isolation because of poor infrastructure and lack of access to key resources, including the current literature. The remedy is therefore capacity building and the transfer of not only knowledge, but also the institutional framework of knowledge creation from the North to the South. In this context, Open Access to the scholarly literature is seen as a means of bridging the global knowledge gap.
In this presentation, I argue that a key contributor to the continual knowledge divide and the invisibility of knowledge from the Global South is the persistence and dominance of Northern frameworks of research evaluation and quality metrics, coupled with outmoded national and international innovation policies based on exclusion and competitiveness. These narrow measures have tended to skew international research agenda and undermine locally relevant research.
A great opportunity that Open Access provides is the means to develop alternative metrics of research uptake and impact that are more inclusive of knowledge from the South, particularly those with development outcomes. In particular, it is important to re-conceptualize and re-design the metrics of research impact to reflect new scholarly practices and the diverse means of engagement enabled by OA and the new wave of social media tools. At the same time, appropriate policies need to be developed to reward open scholarship and to encourage research sharing — issues of particular importance for ending knowledge isolation. Examples of the new kinds of “invisible college” enabled by networking tools and OA will be presented, and particular attention will be paid to innovations emanating from the periphery.
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within to open up education.
• Governments must take firm decision on holistic policies for open and distance education.
• Stakeholders should team up meeting the two grand challenges through open education and technology enhanced learning.
Intervento alla tavola Rotonda su “Iperautorialità e riviste predatorie” il 29 maggio 2024,
Facoltà di Economia, Roma.
Partecipanti:
Santo Fortunato, Indiana University
Giulia Iori, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Marco Malgarini, ANVUR
Angelo Pezzullo, Università Cattolica
Francesco Sylos Labini, CREF
Modera: Marco Li Calzi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
We all talk about how important education is, but not necessarily what makes education high quality. This was originally a webinar for a national NGO, Women Graduates, about our work on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #4: Quality Education. It's based on bits and pieces of doctoral work at the University of California--Los Angeles, plus research on the UN campus in NYC.
Linking to Excellence: best practice in university/corporate partnershipsAlan Bruce
An overview of the themes, issues and strategies in developing university/corporate partnerships at a time of systemic change and pervasive technologies. Presented at the Pearson Colloquium for Brazilian higher education and university rectors in Campinas, Brazil (26.8.2014)
The Impact of World University Rankings on Research and Curriculum Developmen...Leslie Chan
The talk identifies the impact of “world university rankings” on research and curriculum development, particularly for universities in the global South. It is argued that relevance of local research and community engagement are better indicators of ‘excellence’ in the university and we need to rethink assumptions behind "objective" indicators that are underlying most of the major world rankings. These rankings have the effect of rendering research from the developing world invisible and dictating curriculum development oriented towards market needs of the global North. Such rankings thus represent a form of social and cognitive exclusion and institution of higher education should strongly resist this agenda, and formulate other forms of "excellence" based on social inclusion and community engagement.
This presentation discusses the state of art of Innovation in Education and goes beyond technical advances to include the changing students and educational paradigms. It encompasses a wide range of sources- please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Harassing with Numbers: the Uses and Abuses of Bureaucracy and BibliometryGiuseppe De Nicolao
by Giuseppe De Nicolao.
Presented at the 13th European Control Conference, Lunch Session - Friday, June 27, 2014 (http://www.ecc14.eu/lunch-sessions.html).
Quantitative measures of academic performance are playing an ever more important role in every day’s academic life. Numerical indicators are key ingredients of the "reputation race" exemplified by rankings of institutions, journals and researchers. In an era of budget cuts, institutions and individuals must also resort to quantitative indicators in order to prove "accountable" and justify their cost to the public. This may involve an excessive increase of bureaucratic burdens to the point of harming the overall efficiency of teaching and research. Moreover, the question arises whether scientific productivity of scholars can be quantitatively and accurately measured by means of individual bibliometry. In some countries, there is a clear trend towards the normative adoption of bibliometric indicators at all levels, ranging from national research assessments to decisions regarding individuals, such as hiring and promotion. Is this feasible? What are the caveats and ethical risks? What has the scientometric literature to say and what are the international experiences? After the fall of ebony towers are we doomed to a bureaucratic and bibliometric deluge?
Systemic Learning Analytics Symposium, October 10th 2013Adam Cooper
Slides for the talk "Barriers and Pitfalls to Systemic Learning Analytics" by Adam Cooper, Cetis, for the online Systemic Learning Analytics Symposium, organised by George Siements and held on October 10th 2013.
Related blog post at: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/adam/2013/10/31/policy-and-strategy-for-systemic-deployment-of-learning-analytics-barriers-and-potential-pitfalls/
See http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/adam/2013/10/31/policy-and-strategy-for-systemic-deployment-of-learning-analytics-barriers-and-potential-pitfalls/ for an extended blog post on the subject.
Presentación marco para una conversación con STEPS Centre sobre cómo lograr que las organizaciones trabajen en red, a partir de la experiencia en el itdUPM
Global Challenge, International Opportunity: Rehabilitation, Quality, Inclu...Alan Bruce
Presentation at NCRE Fall Conference in Washington, DC in November 2014. Focus on global dimesnions of rehabilitation education and international disability rights in professional best practice.
A presentation on the relationship of innovation, academic innovation, and how Seattle Pacific University's culture engages with and pushes against normative practices. Presented on 11/29/18 to the Faculty Senate
unimagined Shores: Jobless Futures and Digital GlobalizationAlan Bruce
Overview of the prfound and systemic changes in the job market and labor market access for marginaized groups, especially those impacted by disability. The presentation focuses on the impact of both globallization and new digital tecnologies. It posits a future where traditional jobs will disappear to be replaced by flexible employment structurres built around innovative socio-communicative competences and transferable methods of certification and accreditation.
Remapping the Global and Local in Knowledge Production: Roles of Open AccessLeslie Chan
It is generally acknowledged that researchers and institutions in the Global South suffer from knowledge isolation because of poor infrastructure and lack of access to key resources, including the current literature. The remedy is therefore capacity building and the transfer of not only knowledge, but also the institutional framework of knowledge creation from the North to the South. In this context, Open Access to the scholarly literature is seen as a means of bridging the global knowledge gap.
In this presentation, I argue that a key contributor to the continual knowledge divide and the invisibility of knowledge from the Global South is the persistence and dominance of Northern frameworks of research evaluation and quality metrics, coupled with outmoded national and international innovation policies based on exclusion and competitiveness. These narrow measures have tended to skew international research agenda and undermine locally relevant research.
A great opportunity that Open Access provides is the means to develop alternative metrics of research uptake and impact that are more inclusive of knowledge from the South, particularly those with development outcomes. In particular, it is important to re-conceptualize and re-design the metrics of research impact to reflect new scholarly practices and the diverse means of engagement enabled by OA and the new wave of social media tools. At the same time, appropriate policies need to be developed to reward open scholarship and to encourage research sharing — issues of particular importance for ending knowledge isolation. Examples of the new kinds of “invisible college” enabled by networking tools and OA will be presented, and particular attention will be paid to innovations emanating from the periphery.
Education and learning is probably that single phenomenon that has the greatest impact on humans and societies, in particular in a long-term perspective (OECD 2014).
Grand challenge number one is to breach the trend preventing developing countries, in particular South of Everyone aspiring for higher education should have the right to affordable access. This is grand challenge number two. And it cannot be met without open education and technology enhanced learning.Sahara, taking part in the global knowledge revolution.
Three messages:
• Senior management in education needs to innovate from within to open up education.
• Governments must take firm decision on holistic policies for open and distance education.
• Stakeholders should team up meeting the two grand challenges through open education and technology enhanced learning.
Intervento alla tavola Rotonda su “Iperautorialità e riviste predatorie” il 29 maggio 2024,
Facoltà di Economia, Roma.
Partecipanti:
Santo Fortunato, Indiana University
Giulia Iori, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Marco Malgarini, ANVUR
Angelo Pezzullo, Università Cattolica
Francesco Sylos Labini, CREF
Modera: Marco Li Calzi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Giovedì 30 gennaio presso il dipartimento di fisica dell’università di Bari
https://francescosyloslabini.info/2020/01/24/la-valutazione-che-cambia-la-ricerca-conformismo-e-scoperte-2/
Interventi alla Scuola di formazione a Frattocchie, panel "Migrazioni: oltre buonismo e cattivismo"
http://www.patriaecostituzione.it/2019/06/27/il-ritorno-della-politica-scuola-di-formazione-a-frattocchie/
Intervento al meeting L'Urgenza di Ripensare l'Economia - Rethinking Economics,
Francesco Saraceno (Sciences-Po e autore di "La scienza inutile")
Lorenzo Fioramonti (Viceministro Miur)
Francesco Sylos Labini (Cnr e autore di "Rischio e previsione")
Pasquale Tridico (Università Roma Tre)
Gabriele Guzzi (Rethinking Economics Italia)
Intervento come al “DIGITAL ITALY SUMMIT 2017”, che si è tenuto dal 13 al 15 Novembre 2017 a Roma nella Sessione: Le politiche di innovazione per la crescita digitale del nostro Paese
https://www.theinnovationgroup.it/events/digital-italy-summit-2017/?type=0&lang=it
In questo contributo si considera la qualità della gran parte delle previsioni economiche prima e dopo la grande recessione nel 2008 e si discute la ragione teorica alla base del loro fallimento. In particolare si discuteranno le previsioni economiche basate sulla teoria economica neoclassica che ha fornito la base teorica per l’idea che, al fine di aumentare l’efficienza del mercato, i governi dovrebbero privatizzare le loro industrie e deregolamentare i mercati stessi. Questo risultato sarebbe provata da sofisticate teorie economiche, che, attraverso procedure logico-deduttivo, caratterizzata da un rigore matematico formale, avrebbero fornito una serie di teoremi matematici per sostenere queste conclusioni. Tuttavia, considerando le assunzioni alla base dei teoremi matematici utilizzati in questa teoria economica, si riscontra una notevole differenza tra le condizioni in cui possono essere applicati e realtà. A differenza di teorie fisiche che sono stati oggetto di convalida intensiva attraverso esperimenti, sembra che l’economia neoclassica non è stata oggetto di una pressione simile per verificare la teoria contro l’evidenza empirica.
Slides del seminario di presentazione del libro Rischio e Previsioni (più info su https://francescosyloslabini.info/category/books/rischio-e-previsione/ )
Presentazione al Congresso Nazionale del Comitato Nazionale Universitario, Roma 15.12.2016 (http://cnu.cineca.it/article/universit-negli-anni-della-crisi-aggiornamento-programma-n2)
Discussione con il sottosegretario alla Presidenza del Consiglio Tommaso Nannicini sulle Cattedre Natta. Interventi programmati di Massimiliano Tabusi, Francesco Sinopoli e Francesco Sylos Labini.
Meeting on "Funding and Research"
with Donald Gillies University College London
and Emiliano Ippoliti University "Sapienza"
Organized by
Science & Philosophy Colloquia ROARS – Returns On Academic ReSearch
Room x – Villa Mirafiori – via Carlo Fea 2 – Rome 20 May 2015 – 15:30-18:00
Contributo al Convegno Il sistema delle pubbliche amministrazioni e la conoscenza http://francescosyloslabini.info/2015/04/22/il-sistema-delle-pubbliche-amministrazioni-e-la-conoscenza/
Intervento al convegno “L’organizzazione della ricerca storica in Italia” In occasione degli 80 anni della Giunta centrale per gli studi storici Roma, 16-17 dicembre 2014 (view more at http://francescosyloslabini.info/2014/12/08/lorganizzazione-della-ricerca-storica-in-italia/)
USDA Loans in California: A Comprehensive Overview.pptxmarketing367770
USDA Loans in California: A Comprehensive Overview
If you're dreaming of owning a home in California's rural or suburban areas, a USDA loan might be the perfect solution. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers these loans to help low-to-moderate-income individuals and families achieve homeownership.
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how to sell pi coins effectively (from 50 - 100k pi)DOT TECH
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The European Unemployment Puzzle: implications from population agingGRAPE
We study the link between the evolving age structure of the working population and unemployment. We build a large new Keynesian OLG model with a realistic age structure, labor market frictions, sticky prices, and aggregate shocks. Once calibrated to the European economy, we quantify the extent to which demographic changes over the last three decades have contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate. Our findings yield important implications for the future evolution of unemployment given the anticipated further aging of the working population in Europe. We also quantify the implications for optimal monetary policy: lowering inflation volatility becomes less costly in terms of GDP and unemployment volatility, which hints that optimal monetary policy may be more hawkish in an aging society. Finally, our results also propose a partial reversal of the European-US unemployment puzzle due to the fact that the share of young workers is expected to remain robust in the US.
How to get verified on Coinbase Account?_.docxBuy bitget
t's important to note that buying verified Coinbase accounts is not recommended and may violate Coinbase's terms of service. Instead of searching to "buy verified Coinbase accounts," follow the proper steps to verify your own account to ensure compliance and security.
How Does CRISIL Evaluate Lenders in India for Credit RatingsShaheen Kumar
CRISIL evaluates lenders in India by analyzing financial performance, loan portfolio quality, risk management practices, capital adequacy, market position, and adherence to regulatory requirements. This comprehensive assessment ensures a thorough evaluation of creditworthiness and financial strength. Each criterion is meticulously examined to provide credible and reliable ratings.
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US Economic Outlook - Being Decided - M Capital Group August 2021.pdfpchutichetpong
The U.S. economy is continuing its impressive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and not slowing down despite re-occurring bumps. The U.S. savings rate reached its highest ever recorded level at 34% in April 2020 and Americans seem ready to spend. The sectors that had been hurt the most by the pandemic specifically reduced consumer spending, like retail, leisure, hospitality, and travel, are now experiencing massive growth in revenue and job openings.
Could this growth lead to a “Roaring Twenties”? As quickly as the U.S. economy contracted, experiencing a 9.1% drop in economic output relative to the business cycle in Q2 2020, the largest in recorded history, it has rebounded beyond expectations. This surprising growth seems to be fueled by the U.S. government’s aggressive fiscal and monetary policies, and an increase in consumer spending as mobility restrictions are lifted. Unemployment rates between June 2020 and June 2021 decreased by 5.2%, while the demand for labor is increasing, coupled with increasing wages to incentivize Americans to rejoin the labor force. Schools and businesses are expected to fully reopen soon. In parallel, vaccination rates across the country and the world continue to rise, with full vaccination rates of 50% and 14.8% respectively.
However, it is not completely smooth sailing from here. According to M Capital Group, the main risks that threaten the continued growth of the U.S. economy are inflation, unsettled trade relations, and another wave of Covid-19 mutations that could shut down the world again. Have we learned from the past year of COVID-19 and adapted our economy accordingly?
“In order for the U.S. economy to continue growing, whether there is another wave or not, the U.S. needs to focus on diversifying supply chains, supporting business investment, and maintaining consumer spending,” says Grace Feeley, a research analyst at M Capital Group.
While the economic indicators are positive, the risks are coming closer to manifesting and threatening such growth. The new variants spreading throughout the world, Delta, Lambda, and Gamma, are vaccine-resistant and muddy the predictions made about the economy and health of the country. These variants bring back the feeling of uncertainty that has wreaked havoc not only on the stock market but the mindset of people around the world. MCG provides unique insight on how to mitigate these risks to possibly ensure a bright economic future.
Lecture slide titled Fraud Risk Mitigation, Webinar Lecture Delivered at the Society for West African Internal Audit Practitioners (SWAIAP) on Wednesday, November 8, 2023.
Turin Startup Ecosystem 2024 - Ricerca sulle Startup e il Sistema dell'Innov...Quotidiano Piemontese
Turin Startup Ecosystem 2024
Una ricerca de il Club degli Investitori, in collaborazione con ToTeM Torino Tech Map e con il supporto della ESCP Business School e di Growth Capital
Abhay Bhutada Leads Poonawalla Fincorp To Record Low NPA And Unprecedented Gr...Vighnesh Shashtri
Under the leadership of Abhay Bhutada, Poonawalla Fincorp has achieved record-low Non-Performing Assets (NPA) and witnessed unprecedented growth. Bhutada's strategic vision and effective management have significantly enhanced the company's financial health, showcasing a robust performance in the financial sector. This achievement underscores the company's resilience and ability to thrive in a competitive market, setting a new benchmark for operational excellence in the industry.
2. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
3. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
4. GINI INDEX
G=0 minimum
concentration: all
receive the same
income.
G=1 maximum
concentration: a single
person perceives the
whole country’s
income while everyone
else has zero income.
5. GINI INDEX
• In 2014 the 60 richest
people on the planet own in
total the same wealth of the
poorest 50% of the world
• In 2010 they were 388
persons
6. THE ERA OF INEQUALITIES
A Chief Executive Officer of a large US
company listed on the Stock Exchange
earns an average of about $11.4
million, which is about 343 times more
than the salary of one of his employees.
Despite the crisis, his earnings between
2009 and 2010 increased by 23 %.
7. The unspoken corollary
The poor and families
at risk of hardship
deserve to be poor
and at risk of hardship
because they are not
«good» enough.
8. WHY IS THIS EXTRAORDINARY
INEQUALITY IN WEALTH
ACCEPTABLE TODAY?
THE
MERITOCRACY:
THE IDEOLOGY
AT THE ROOTS
OF INEQUALITIES
9. THE AGE OF INEQUALITIES
«The rich and the poor
were always there. But
compared to the rest of
the population today,
riches are more numerous
than at any other time we
have memory»
11. THE DYNAMCIS UNDERLYING THE
FORMATION OF INEQUALTIES
“Whoever has will be given more,
and they will have an abundance.
Whoever does not have, even
what they have will be taken from
them”
Matthew 25:29
12. TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS: THEORY
• Trickle-down effect of wealth
dripping from top to bottom, by
reaching the poorest
segments of the population.
• The profits derived from
productive investments would
be reinvested to create jobs
and growth, by precisely the
effect of top-down dripping.
14. THE DYSTOPIC SOCIETY
• The absurdity of a society where wealth
and power are distributed in accordance
with school performance or Intelligence
Quotients
• The caste that would derive bases its
legitimacy on intelligence tests and would
be even more closed and impermeable
than old castes which it replaces.
• In this society the market and
competition values would have
permeated every aspect of social life,
starting right from elementary education.
15. THE DYSTOPIC SOCIETY
• The selection focuses on a few measures
of educational excellence, increasing the
selection of those who do not conform to
the standards of intelligence defined as
“smarts”.
• Meritocracy in education would thus have
a dual role: on the one hand to represent
the basic criterion to select the most
efficient technicians needed for the society
and its economy, and on the other to
provide the moral justification for the
inequalities in the distribution of income
that necessarily are created.
16. The Rise of the Meritocracy
Merit –
Equal opportunities
Privilege
17. The Rise of the Meritocracy
Merit –
Equal opportunities
Privilege
“There is nothing as
unfair as making
equal parts among
unequals”
Don Milani
18. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
19. THE CASE OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
• The same symptoms, that is, concentration of resources in a few hands
and drastic reduction of the possibility of improvement for many, can be
found in the apex of the educational system, academia and scientific
research.
• These are the basis of the crisis of contemporary science because they
contribute to the stifling of scientific and cultural diversification, the
heart of innovation and economic development.
20. Measuring «Merit»
• Tests and rankings of all kinds in order to measure the
merit of both individuals (students, teachers, researchers,
etc.) and organizations (schools, universities, etc.) have
been introduced
• The basic idea of meritocracy is that it is possible to
establish a perfect rating of the quality of individuals
/organizations that leads to better use of their skills and
thus to greater efficiency of the individual and of the
system.
• However the “assessment of merit” is much more
complex than one might naively think…..
21. • The problem of quality assessing and measuring
has strong analogies with the problem of measuring
intelligence.
• As palaeontologist Stephen J. Gould highlighted, IQ
does not measure intelligence but only the ability
to quickly solve a number of problems of a
particular type. To measure intelligence reliably,
one should first define it unequivocally, but it is
highly questionable whether there is only one way
to do it.
• The same reasoning can be applied to measuring
the quality in education and research in its various
meanings among students, teachers, researchers,
institutions, etc.
22. Measuring
quantities and
not qualities
• The problem of quality assessing and measuring
has strong analogies with the problem of measuring
intelligence.
• As palaeontologist Stephen J. Gould highlighted, IQ
does not measure intelligence but only the ability
to quickly solve a number of problems of a
particular type. To measure intelligence reliably,
one should first define it unequivocally, but it is
highly questionable whether there is only one way
to do it.
• The same reasoning can be applied to measuring
the quality in education and research in its various
meanings among students, teachers, researchers,
institutions, etc.
23. Quantitative evaluation and big data
• The advent of big data has allowed us to
measure a series of quantities, in different
contexts, supposedly related with the merit, and
that therefore can be used to evaluate and
manage various educational systems, distribute
the funds, determine careers, etc.
• Quantitative evaluation is thus born and now
grows thanks to the availability of big data
24. The end of theory ?
The underlying philosophy by the
computer guru Chris Anderson
This is a world where massive amounts of
data and applied mathematics replace
every other tool….
Forget taxonomy, ontology, and
psychology. Who knows why people do
what they do? The point is they do it, and
we can track and measure it with
unprecedented fidelity. With enough data,
the numbers speak for themselves.
25. Evaluation:
a pseudo-science
• The availability of big data has given rise to
the emergence of a true pseudo-science that,
through the use of quality rankings, is
transforming education and research systems
all over the world.
• Its role is to reduce a complex problem,
essentially political in nature, concerning how
to organize schools, higher education and
research systems of a country, to a technical
one.
• A problem can be solved by finding the
optimal distribution of resources based on the
value of a particular set of quantitative
indicators invoked, arbitrarily, by some ad
hoc organizations.
• Same as in “pseudo-economics” ….
26. The ‘Harvard Here’ Model
“Worldclass university as the panacea for ensuring
success in the global economy.
Continuous evaluation of global capacity and potential
To conform to indicators set by global rankings:
• governments and institutions make profound changes to their
higher education systems,
• alter their education programmes,
• privilege some disciplines and fields.
36. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
37. EC research funding
About 10% of National funding
Imitation at the National level of the EC
“best practices”
Top-down research lines
Curiosity driven programs: ERC / Marie
Curie fellowships
Are these really “best practices”
for science?
38.
39. Follow the money ….
Budget of the 7° Framework program
of the EC (2007-2013)
Millions
of
Euros
Given Obtained
41. The international crisis in scientific research
Increasing number of scientific articles but more rapid increasing
number of retractions
Increasing role of tecno-evaluation
Large number of PhD and Postdoc with low salaries and little
possibility of obtaining a permanent position
Small number of élite researchers
42.
43.
44.
45. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
46. EVALUATING EVALUATION
• How to reward good and
promising research ?
• Which kind of selection?
• Which criteria?
59. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
62. COMPETITION OF IDEAS
vs
COMPETITION OF RESEARCHERS
«The history of science has been and
must be a history of competing research
programmes ... the earlier the competition
begins, the better it is for progress»
Imre Lakatos (1970)
63. RESEARCH IS RISKY !
"We conclude that scientific impact
(as reflected by publications) is
only weakly limited by funding. We
suggest that funding strategies
that target diversity, rather than
“excellence”, are likely to prove to
be more productive.”
64. Investment in Education and Research
The key role of the visible hand
is to build the infrastructures that
are necessary (but not sufficient)
for the economic development
65. OUTLINE
• Inequalities and the meritocracy
• The case of higher education: the
«Harvard here» model
• The excellence dogma and its effect
on research
• Excellence and reality
• Research is risky
• Diversification and innovation
66. THE ERA OF INEQUALITIES:
consequences on education
Education, that in principle
should play the main role to
enable more efficient social
mobility, seems to have lost its
remediate power as a result of
increasingly insurmountable
inequality, signifying a crisis of
the whole education system.
67. THE ERA OF INEQUALITIES:
consequences on education
Parallel to the growth of inequalities, there
has been a breakdown in intergenerational
mobility: young people in the countries with
major imbalance in the distribution of wealth
have little chance of improving their
situation.
68. The Scientific Competitiveness of Nations
• Beyond having the largest production
of scientific papers and the largest
number of citations, do not specialize
in few scientific domains. Rather, they
diversify as much as possible their
research system
• Diversification is the key element that
correlates with scientific and
technological competitiveness
69. Diversification and competitiveness
• Diversification correlates with
competitiveness
• As in biological systems,
diversification achieves long-term
stability and competitiveness in a
changing environment such as the
present globalised world
72. “Science can be effective in the national
welfare only as a member of a team,
whether the conditions be peace or war.
But without scientific progress no amount of
achievement in other direction can insure
our health, prosperity and security as a
nation in the modern world”.
Science The Endless Frontier
A Report to the President
by Vannevar Bush
July 1945
73. Risk in research
and innovation
• Diversification
• Adaptability
• Cooperation
• Long times
77. The rise of the
cultural hegemony
of the meritocracy
78. “There is a class
struggle going on, it
is true, but it is my
class, the rich class,
that is waging the
war, and we are
winning.”
Warren Buffett
79. The illusion from the 1980s
«For thirty years we have turned the pursuit
of material self-interest into a virtue... Much
of what appears ‘natural’ today dates from
the 1980s: the obsession with wealth
creation, the cult of privatisation and the
private sector, the growing disparities
between rich and poor… And above all, the
rhetoric that accompanies all this: the
uncritical admiration for free markets,
the contempt for the public sector, the
illusion of endless growth»
Tony Judt
82. The cultural hegemony
Neoclassical economic theory:
economics is conceived as a
science that studies the alternative
choices of scarce resources, and
the market is the place of optimal
allocation of resources,
guaranteed by rational agents able
to use all the available information
conveyed by prices, which measure
the scarcity of such resources.
83. The market would “naturally” find
an equilibrium that is the
meeting point between supply
and demand, according to a
process that is exclusively logical-
deductive and therefore totally
independent from the diversities
among economies in time and
space.
The cultural hegemony
84. Politics is subject to
markets, acting at most in
a technocratic form in
order to facilitate their
functioning.
The cultural hegemony
85.
86.
87. The classical economics
Economics as a scientific
reflection on the society, aimed at
examining the characteristics that
ensure the conditions of
development on the basis of
division of labour, in a social,
institutional and regulatory
context that constrains the role
and actions of the various parties
in time and space.
88. Beyond the different versions and
insights the vision of political economy
remains anchored to a representation
of the economic system in which the
size of the social classes and the
diversity of interests determine a
basically unstable structure
The cultural hegemony