With colleges and universities having moved their instruction online due to COVID-19, an ecologist shows how service learning can take place in the virtual world as well.
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Australia’s research workforce will be severely impacted by the pandemic, with the effects likely to be felt for years, if not decades.
This essay explores the way the social contract between universities, society and the state has changed over the course of the 20th century. And how generations of students paid and benefited.
Even before this pandemic, international students were exposed to several unique hardships. These are compounded by COVID-19.
Even before COVID-19, use of the ATAR for university entry was contentious. Now it’s even more so, and universities need to rely on other ways to admit students.
They’re conducting research, accommodating testing facilities and turning dorms into quarters for medical professionals while also helping people muddle through hard ethical decisions.
For every $1 lost in university tuition fees, there is another $1.15 lost in the broader economy. This means loss of university revenue can cost the Australian economy more than $40 billion by 2023.
The government’s new funding package for universities is a good first step. But its plan for low-cost online courses is problematic.
The proliferation of sub-standard journals may be attributed to the proliferation of universities in Nigeria and this demands urgent attention.
Helping international students is in Australia’s best interest. Universities rely on them to stay afloat, and in 2018, Australian universities contributed $41 billion to the economy.
Colleges will likely offer bigger financial aid packages to compete for students amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 outbreak, a former admissions officer says.
Even under the best circumstances, the needs of students with a hearing impairment are often unmet. Here’s what lecturers can do to ensure that no students are left behind.
Through their exposure to new trends in knowledge production, African academics in the diaspora can contribute to equipping African students for the global economy.
How much data are you using when streaming lectures? What camera do you need? And what’s a VPN? Here are some handy tips to be technologically prepared for your virtual university experience.
Moi’s university policies aimed at engineering a social transformation by providing opportunities to the excluded groups.
Without government intervention, three experts warn, HBCUs will have a difficult time bouncing back from the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Steps higher education institutions can take to ensure that teaching and learning continues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A researcher takes a closer look at an online compilation of sexual harassment reports on campus.
An online education expert explains the challenges schools will face as they go virtual.
For higher ed, this is a crisis of unknown proportions.
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
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Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
