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Australian universities face a huge revenue hit from falling international student numbers due to COVID-19 and tensions with China. Some institutions should consider merging rather than downsizing.
Universities now face more financial uncertainty.
Professor Barney Glover on the bleak years ahead for higher education
Michelle Grattan discusses the higher-education sector with Professor Barney Glover
Cramming for exams can result in short-term memorisation rather than meaningful learning.
Bringing change to universities needs to focus on systems, not people. Although online shaming is effective at removing people from their positions, it doesn’t change systems.
Students won’t be allowed to participate in activities at St. Francis Xavier University this fall unless they sign a COVID-19 waiver. That’s forcing them to make a difficult and unfair choice.
Nigeria’s medical community is mourning the death of medical professor and university administrator, Emeritus Professor Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe.
With other international education markets still struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand and Australian universities should position themselves as premium destinations.
Higher education institutions have started challenging the role of states as the dominant force in attracting foreign investment – particularly in terms of human talents and technological resources.
The federal government will provide an extra 39,000 university places by 2023 in a package that will restructure the amounts students have to pay for courses.
The gravitational pull of global rankings consumes university energy and attention. But there had to be a better way to measure their value.
For many people, universities remain institutions embodying past imperial practices. Universities have an important role to play in society, and they must do so with society.
A Mitchell Institute report has estimated the proportion of international students in various Australian suburbs, and how much they contribute to the local economy.
While governments have tried to curb universities’ autonomy, the institutions have often spent their money unwisely. And now, we face a crisis.
Universities can only credibly claim to be preparing young people for their futures if they take into account the kind of world they are helping to bring about.
Many university teaching labs are empty as students have been moved off campus during the pandemic. There are other ways to put theory into practice, at home and online.
Not all teaching spaces in universities are big enough to allow students to return to normal study as the pandemic restriction ease.
Albertans expect a draft agreement for performance-based funding for universities — but here’s why it should be scrapped.
The desire of scholars and universities in Africa to fit into a model imposed from elsewhere may hinder development in Africa.
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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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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National 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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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos
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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
