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The role of universities in the shameful Indian residential school system needs to be addressed. The president of one of Canada’s leading universities explains why it’s time to apologize.
When higher education is thought of as a commodity, students and teachers lose out. A new partnership-based approach can provide a much richer learning experience.
It’s time to (do more than) talk about knowledge. Universities must take leadership in helping develop students capacity to recognise different kinds of knowledge and work flexibly.
More than 70% of female students, and 26% of male students, have experienced sexual violence while at university.
Ethical review is often seen as a barrier to research and innovation within universities, but it can be constructive. More attention should be paid to the potential benefits of the process.
Academia is not immune to gender bias. One way to see this in action is to observe who asks questions during conferences – and men appear to ask more than women.
A closer look at the US-China trade relationship shows why Trump’s ‘targeted’ tariffs are likely to hurt American workers and businesses as well.
The gender pay gap at Canadian universities cannot be explained away as the holdover from discrimination of long ago. It’s high time universities valued male and female professors equally.
The international community should set bright line rules on appropriate responses to cyber attacks before an expansive reading of the “self-defense” clause triggers war.
Despite the Federal Government’s teacher education reforms and the push for evidence-based teaching, less than 2% of ARC research funding is directed to educational research.
Research partnerships between Australian universities, the Department of Defence and weapons manufacturers may not be ethically justifiable.
Despite serious financial and enrolment pressure for some, our universities are unlikely to close their doors – but some may have to resort to being ‘merged’ or taken over by a stronger partner.
It’s crucial to ensure that the academic project at universities is vigorously and bravely safeguarded.
Strike rules for international staff illuminates the intractable tensions that underpin the logic of universities.
Student-led campaigns have been calling out racism in universities for years. After a shocking incident at Nottingham Trent University, perhaps we should start to listen.
Working-class high achievers often struggle to fit in to higher education and can end up isolated both at university and in their home environment.
A deal that allows Kaplan University to shed its for-profit status and join Purdue University may represent a new way for troubled for-profit colleges to survive.
The internet has not only changed the kinds of answers historical study can provide, but also what questions can be asked.
Addressing male cultures of tribalism and violence needs to be central to the response to reports of hazing and violence in Austrslia’s university colleges.
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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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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Chief Data Officer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Professor of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos
