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Already at the head of life’s line-up. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

18 août 2015

Social mobility: why does private school give you such a leg up?

Matt Dickson, University of Bath

Private school graduates earn more and are more likely to get top professional jobs. It has a lot to do with their grades.

Universities are public in nature but don’t represent a cross-section of the public. SUARTS/Flickr

31 mai 2015

Who do universities serve? Everyone, or just the elite few?

Julia Horne, University of Sydney

Universities are public in nature but don't represent a cross-section of the public. So who do they serve?

In third place, Oxford University is the top UK institution in the World University Rankings 2014-15. Andrew Matthews/PA Archive

2 octobre 2014

What do world university rankings actually mean?

Steven C. Ward, Western Connecticut State University

From the “best beaches” to the “best slice of pizza” to the best hospital to have cardiac surgery in, we are inundated with a seemingly never-ending series of reports ranking everything that can be ranked…

Will students pay exorbitant fees for Australia’s most prestigious universities if there’s no future financial benefit? Flickr/Justin Kim

5 juin 2014

Prestige costs rather than pays in higher education

Raymond Da Silva Rosa, University of Western Australia

The belief of Australia’s Group of Eight elite universities that fee deregulation will allow them to fund their chase for global prestige is based on a fundamental misreading of the economics of elite…

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Raymond Da Silva Rosa
Professor of Finance, President, UWA Academic Staff Association, University of Western Australia
Julia Horne
University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
Steven C. Ward
Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University
Matt Dickson
Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Bath