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.
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Social class plays a huge role in people’s experiences of accessing and succeeding in higher education.
The benefits of university are clear and measurable, but we can do more with constructive reform.
Acutely aware of class inequality and social injustice, Hardy was also a notable advocate of access to Higher Education.
Practical ways forward for higher education policy reform include fixing the dysfunctional relationship between higher and vocational education or government-sponsored analysis of the future of work.
Affirming that teaching is a science is tantamount to legitimating the forms of violence that are based on the affirmation of “truths”. Instead, it is a coupling of the activities of a subject-learner and a subject-intervener.
A professor of social work who grew up in foster care shines light on programs meant to help former foster youth make it through college.
Investor Bill Miller’s $75 million gift to the Johns Hopkins philosophy department clashes with conventional wisdom regarding the value studying the humanities today.
Despite good intentions, efforts to hold colleges and universities accountable often miss the mark. The reasons why range from politics to resistance among the institutions themselves.
Theresa May is under pressure to tackle tuition fees after Labour’s pledge to scrap them was highlighted as a key issue for young voters.
By contrast, poor maternity pay leads to an under-representation of women in higher positions and lower salaries.
Controversy ignited when a Florida Gulf Coast University professor began teaching a ‘white racism’ course this year. Ted Thornhill says his course is rooted in a ‘damning body’ of evidence.
3D urban modelling is a transformative technology for designing cities. But incorporating new technologies into planning practice has its challenges.
As a co-founder, and Chief Executive of The Conversation in the UK, Max Landry learned a great deal. He is moving on, but leaves best wishes for the future of a project that remains dear to him.
Amos Tutuola has contributed significantly to the resilience of ways of life and worldviews that could easily have disappeared under the weight of colonialism, globalisation and the market economy.
Southeast Asian countires have a goal to integrate their higher education network to give young generations a truly regional experience. Is it possible?
The number of colleges that have test-optional admissions policies has now surpassed 1,000. An admissions specialist explains why that milestone is a welcome one.
Artificial intelligence and automation are bringing changes to higher education that will challenge, and may even threaten, traditional universities.
The Office for Students hasn’t even started work yet, but is already under fire for its board appointment of Toby Young.
Some thought technology would make braille redundant – but the real threat is a lack of education and resources.
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Higher Education, Seton Hall University
