Gonski funding was scrapped and the vocational education sector got a new student loan system. Here’s what else happened in education this year…
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2017 promises to be another tough year as South African universities head into the uncertain terrain of further addressing and healing the divisions that have been exposed.
Working-class students are put off by a perceived future of low pay and high debt.
College is a time for friendships. But how can students best leverage the power of those friendships? First, by learning how those networks work.
Language learning can make people more open to seeing a new way of doing things and develop a greater level of comfort with unfamiliar situations.
A flat-rate fee on all student loans is a fairer economic proposal.
Cyber threats are universal. But the appropriate response may be quite different in academia from what works in the corporate world.
New guidelines from Scotland’s universities association are a major step in the right direction.
Twenty states not only accept undocumented students in higher education institutions, but also provide them with financial support.
If researchers pose the right questions about transformation, this can lead to better answers, stronger policies and, ultimately, real change.
Massive expansion of the education system has created new problems, and left old ones unresolved.
A lot was expected from the South African finance minister’s 2016 medium term budget which came amid an unfolding economic crisis including the higher education funding gap.
Some students argue wrongly that the ANC has betrayed the promise of free higher education made in the Freedom Charter. The governing party’s populism is also to blame for the confusion.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that government expenditure on higher education and specifically universities will be the fastest growing expenditure items on the budget.
Research looking at evidence-based teaching in higher education tends to be based more on anecdotes than on large, robust and peer-reviewed data.
Speculation has fallen on whether Labor will maintain its planned policy of enforcing a binding vote on marriage equality.
A new clause being embedded in a number of university contracts attempts to restrict academics from speaking freely in public debate about issues that are outside their area of research.
When several South African universities merged, it was hoped this would improve access and equality. It had the opposite effect.
Placing greater control over student fees will not lift the quality of student outcomes and ensure the integrity of the qualifications issued.
The decision to award former Prime Minister John Howard an honorary doctorate was criticised. So what are honorary titles - and why do we still have them?
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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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 Director Student Experience, Monash University
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Professor in Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
