While selective universities may be elusive for many students, going to a community college first can represent an alternative way to get in, new research has found.
Pressure on academic freedom in the Reform Era has evolved compared to the more centralised style of the New Order.
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Australia has a moral duty to engage with the global challenge of providing quality education to hundreds of millions of Indian youth over the next 20 years.
Mental disorders are treatable, but a key stumbling block towards positive campus responses in health care has been a lack of systematically collected data.
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Mental health researchers based at Queen’s University in Canada and Oxford University in the U.K. are helping universities take the lead in developing improved student mental health care.
California lawmakers have approved a bill that would enable college athletes to get paid endorsements.
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California’s legislature has approved a bill that would let college athletes get paid endorsements. A sociologist explains what the measure would mean for the players.
Over the past 20 years the number of international branch campuses (IBCs) have grown like “mushrooms in the rain”. Will their entry be beneficial to Indonesians?
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Foreign universities can provide quality education while also opening avenues for global research. However, initiatives must be put in place to make sure they are accessible to all Indonesians.
Quality higher education is more than just securing a job.
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Higher education needs to do more than produce graduates who can get a job. It should also give students opportunities and a voice when it comes to participating in the economy and broader society.
President Obama sought to make the United States the most college-educated nation in the world by 2020.
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With limited resources and inadequate infrastructure, African universities appear to be under tremendous strain. But some are beating the odds and getting it right.
The number of Māori and Pasifika students is growing, but they do not see themselves represented among the people who teach them.
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New research shows that Māori and Pasifika scholars are significantly under-represented in New Zealand’s universities, making up only 5% and 1.7% of the academic workforce, respectively.
About 1 in 10 student loan borrowers default on their student loans.
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A higher education scholar explains how he came to oversee a set of college rankings meant to take a different tact than the more popular rankings from US News & World Report.
Textbook prices are taking a toll on student finances.
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Textbook prices are causing many college students to forego the books they need for class, putting their grades in peril and leading many to miss out on certain courses, research shows.