Tightening regulation will contain the damage but this alone will not address the deeper problems in vocational education.
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School principals are experiencing increasing levels of violence and threats from students and parents. What needs to change?
It’s no longer acceptable to upload video lectures to a website and call it a course. We need to start redesigning courses from scratch to find new ways to engage students.
Welsh and Scottish students get more support than English and Northern Irish ones.
A crisis of sustainability is building up as universities continue to drift towards a more privatised system. It’s time we started looking at alternative options.
When your kids (or colleagues) misbehave, does anyone give you five options, one of which is uniquely correct, to solve the problem? So, why do we continue to test students in this way?
Being up front about what public investment goes towards in higher education is an important step for providing greater clarity for students.
I taught at Mizzou from 1996 to 2008. Here’s why the events don’t surprise me.
When students land on campus, they often have unanswered questions about their reproductive health. One solution: create a massive open online class to teach them about reproductive health.
Australians who live in another country for more than six months will now have to pay back their student loans.
Can the race of a teaching assistant have an impact on student grades?
The decline in government investment in higher education and the ever-increasing reliance on fees has made universities more like private for-profit corporations.
A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
Liberal arts institutions teach students critical thinking skills. But rarely do they learn how to collaborate.
UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
The number of part-time students has dropped dramatically and even those who get to university feel side-lined.
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?
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
A checklist of how countries can be as uncompetitive as possible in attracting overseas students.
Female scholars tend to assign more readings from women authors. But then male instructors assign more of their own work.
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