An online education expert explains the challenges schools will face as they go virtual.
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For higher ed, this is a crisis of unknown proportions.
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It's important to focus on the challenges facing higher education before the reach a boiling point.
Colleges often seek to boost student diversity, build a strong academic class and bring in more tuition money. A former enrollment manager says it can be difficult to do all three.
The intensive mode offers opportunities to enhance student learning. It also risks exhausting academics and students, and leaving students behind. But careful design can mitigate these risks.
As a student protest continues at Syracuse University, a scholar argues that student activism is a valuable part of the college experience.
What’s more, higher education holds the key to ensuring humans are equipped with the necessary skills to work alongside AI.
How African knowledge systems can be incorporated into higher education.
In our law school, lecture attendance averaged just 38% of total enrolments across the semester.
Two experts in higher education policy explain the high hurdles that must be cleared to use bankruptcy to escape crushing student loan debt.
The University of Sydney took in about A$750 million from international students in 2017. Two-thirds of that – about $500 million – came from international students from China.
Monash will be the first foreign university to open a branch campus in Indonesia. However, academics are divided on how the planned campus will impact the country’s higher education sector.
Decolonising mathematical sciences is possible. The answer lies in rediscovering existing African examples of teaching maths and including them in the Western body of knowledge.
Will the White House plans to boost spending on career and technical education help today’s teens land better jobs?
West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler set out to visit high school students throughout the Texas Panhandle and the South Plains with a simple message about student loans.
Universities have put in place many measures to help international students. But online classes are not a simple solution, and the government could help with the extra money students have to spend.
Australia has never had such a drop in student numbers. Even during the SARS outbreak Australia didn’t implement bans on those travelling from affected countries.
While online education may seem like a convenient way to earn a degree in the comfort of your own home or office, an expert warns of pitfalls that can seriously set a student behind.
Between 23% and 52% of education, civil engineering, nursing and commerce students failed a unit of their degree. Those who failed a subject were four times more likely to drop out of their course.
It helps when school leaders are open about their financial struggles before it’s too late to forge a good plan.
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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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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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 of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and 21st Century Chair, University of Arkansas
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Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
