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A lot was expected from the South African finance minister’s 2016 medium term budget which came amid an unfolding economic crisis including the higher education funding gap.
Many centres were set up in Australian universities to take advantage of China’s rising importance, but without ongoing funding they might be subject to interference from external donors.
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink ideas of “the humanities”.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that government expenditure on higher education and specifically universities will be the fastest growing expenditure items on the budget.
South Africa’s 2016 medium term budget was awaited with bated breath amid rising political tensions, increasingly violent student protests and the threat of a credit downgrade.
Mind blanks are typically triggered in response to a perceived threat. The chemical process that takes place essentially clears out your working memory, quiets logical processes, and walls off memory.
TCUS launched on October 21, 2014 with six editors. Today we are 12 editors and growing.
Vocational Education and Training helps low school achievers up skill and avoid disadvantage in the workplace.
Who am I, as an academic, to decide in advance what is or what is not triggering to others?
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
A new clause being embedded in a number of university contracts attempts to restrict academics from speaking freely in public debate about issues that are outside their area of research.
International students’ diverse backgrounds and experiences enrich the entire student body, and society more broadly.
The decision to award former Prime Minister John Howard an honorary doctorate was criticised. So what are honorary titles - and why do we still have them?
The REF has turned academic research from a vocation to pursue knowledge and scholarship, to a game of ‘hits’ in top journals.
Students feel they are not getting the support they need, despite research showing that the relationships students have with their lecturers can have a big influence over retention rates.
It is time for you to rethink the concept of disability – because it is not a dirty word.
Gender is still a black and white topic in some quarters.
There is no such thing as ‘free higher education’. Someone has to pay. And the reality is that low, or no tuition fees benefit middle and high-income families.
Academics feel insecure, are overwhelmed by unmanageable workloads and burdened by bureaucracy. And things are only getting worse.
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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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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash 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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Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
