Lecturer at SciencesPo in Paris, where she works as research director at the CNRS and RAPPE. She is specialized in the analysis of educational inequalities, within "local educational spaces" as she refers to them. In these spaces she studies the dynamics and logical actions...
Dani Torrens in his doctoral thesis analyzes the system of catalan universities that has undergone important changes during the last decades, either in terms of number and type of university students, or in terms of the regulations governing their access and supply. The current economic model...
Professor of International and Comparative Education and Professor of "International and Transcultural Studies" at Teachers College, of Columbia University in New York, Gita Steiner-Khamsin is one of the most renowned researchers in comparative education and educational policies globally.
Inmigración y Diversidad en España. Crisis econòmica y gestión municipal (Immigration and Diversity in Spain: Economic Crisis and Municipal Management), which was recently published by...
Collectivist values, based on the idea of egalitarian social compromise, tend to break. For those profiles which have made up the traditional working class, social closure is a defence mechanism against competition...
Agnès Hubert, French economist, political scientist and journalist, has worked for many years in the European Commission on gender equality and social matters. She has come to the UAB to take part...
Comparison of occupation between parents and descendants has traditionally been made using only the male population, thus obscuring women. From INE data for 2011, this article compares the results obtained when taking into account only fathers and sons,...
The interactions between national and global phenomena not only affect public policy areas such as finance, trade, climate change and migration, but also take place in education, a traditionally national policy area. At present, all schools in Brazil are committed to...
