Australians who live in another country for more than six months will now have to pay back their student loans.
‘There are relatively fewer large-scale research-intensive industries for universities to partner with in Australia,’ says Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor, University of Melbourne.
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The #feesmustfall movement brought gains for democracy. As relatively free spaces for enquiry, universities have a public duty to fight, not facilitate, a slide into a national security state.
Is university all about being job-ready?
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Universities are cutting and streamlining their courses in an attempt to make graduates more employable. But lots of graduates are still struggling to find work, so why isn’t it working?
Understanding the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis has won a South African molecular biologist international recognition.
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Funding for South African higher education is inadequate considering past inequalities. Even more alarming is the fact that plans for research development and innovation in science remain elusive.
To understand inequality in countries like South Africa, it is important to have a good grasp of factors influencing the allocation of skills and knowledge.
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In a country as unequal as South Africa, the people who have access to higher education have the power to shape the society, including its elites and middle class.
Research, rather than teaching, benefits from the revenue gained from increasing student numbers.
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The decline in government investment in higher education and the ever-increasing reliance on fees has made universities more like private for-profit corporations.
Getting into the spirit at Temple University.
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UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
Thousands of students from the University of the Witwatersrand demonstrate during protests against fee increases which have spread to other major universities in the country.
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Less than half of young people in Australia go to university, so why do we make this the gold standard that all should strive for?
Island universities are unavoidably at one with the elements. This offers rich opportunities for studying these elements - like the oceans.
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A school in south London has become the latest building to win the UK’s most prestigious architecture accolade, fuelling the debate as to the importance of architecture to learning.
New research finds the graduate premium is higher for women than men - but the gender pay gap is still stark.
Students protest at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University demanding the right to be taught in English rather than Afrikaans, which they identify with apartheid.
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The university should be the bastion of the right to free expression in the promotion of democracy, and has a moral and ethical obligation to provide spaces for fierce debate and critical engagement.
Many people think that the admissions process should take into account the type of school students attended.
The new Prime Minister has an opportunity to reverse the cuts to science funding and transform Australia into an innovative nation.
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