Technology has disrupted the way universities offer courses, the types of skills we will need, and the duration for which we will need them. Here are three things universities must do to survive.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Universities
Affichage de 1 à 20 de 433 articles
Academic research has awakened society to the scale of the climate emergency – now universities must lead the way on the solution.
There is growing concern that China is trying to use universities to silence its critics in the West.
Mindfulness aligns itself with science and academia to be seen as credible but it lacks any real evidence.
Despite the headline cut in fees, under the Augar review, students would on average be paying more.
At a special commencement ceremony for first-generation college graduates, a dean gave a speech made up of nothing but questions.
A political scientist explains how a new commission that wants to measure the economic value of a college degree could end up devaluing the liberal arts.
In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.
History is complex and multi-dimensional. Any response to what happened in the past should reflect this.
A shift to outcomes-based education will enable students to gain critical automation-resistant competencies to succeed and thrive in the future workforce alongside AI.
Although the end of the semester can be a stressful time for students, embracing the stress can help students deal with it better than trying to avoid it, a well-being expert argues.
The April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte isn't an outlier. Research shows it fits a familiar pattern of campus shootings in terms of time and place.
When scandals take place at a college, the natural reaction for some people is to avoid the school. But two economists suggest potential applicants think hard about their decision.
As the nation prepares to watch the Final Four, a sports scholar examines new information that shows how college athletes make money for their schools, coaches and corporations – but not themselves.
While the first year of college can be stressful, using the time between high school graduation and the college drop-off to prepare can help ease the transition, two educators say in a new book.
While net price calculators are meant to help students figure out how much a particular college will cost, a new study reveals that many colleges' calculators distort the true cost of attendance.
New systems with stricter rules would make it easier to hold colleges and universities accountable on behalf of the taxpayers who support them.
Though largely political and symbolic, the campus free speech order that President Trump issued matters because it ties millions of federal research dollars to how well colleges protect free speech.
These programmes allow institutions to claim they're doing something without really tackling the issues that lead students to plagiarise.
When it comes to innovation, Santa Clara County is way ahead of the rest of the US. Between 2000 and 2015, more than 140,000 patents were granted there – triple the number of the next-ranked county.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
-
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
-
Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
-
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
-
Gavin Moodie est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
Adjunct professor, RMIT University
-
Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
-
Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
-
Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
-
Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
-
Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, University of Melbourne
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
-
Director and CEO of the Australia India Institute; Professor of Development Geography, University of Melbourne
-
Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Bath
-
Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
