Engaging with diversity – a key ingredient for sense of belonging on college campuses – may involve discomfort and even tension at times.
There are more than 33 million students in Indonesia’s public schools, while the number of those enrolled in universities amounts to around seven million.
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The lack of safe spaces for students to express themselves and explore their academic passions can be seen as a reason why Indonesia doesn’t perform well in global education indexes.
Only 16% of predicted grades are accurate and the current system penalises disadvantaged students and those from minority backgrounds.
Once qualified, men who did a popular engineering-related VET course often worked in high-paid fields such as construction or manufacturing.
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Students with lower ATARs generally have lower lifetime earnings. But a Grattan Institute report found low ATAR men could earn more doing a VET course than a bachelor degree in their chosen field.
A view of University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Nationwide, state government money has become a smaller and smaller fraction of public higher education budgets.
Two universities are conducting internal reviews of research collaborations linked to the suppression and surveillance of the Uyghur minority in western China.
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China’s aggressive program of acquiring technology from abroad should be a cause of concern for Australian universities. Yet, our system of vetting research collaborations is clearly broken.
Technology has disrupted the way universities offer courses, the types of skills we will need, and the duration for which we will need them. Here are three things universities must do to survive.
The greening of university spaces, as demonstrated by the University of Warsaw’s library, can also help universities lower emissions.
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Students gain up to 4kg in their first year at university and all the junk food on campus doesn’t help. Universities have a responsibility to make healthier foods available to students.
Students hug after a ceremony at Tufts University May 3. The ceremony celebrated 58 students who are the first in their family to receive a college degree.
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A political scientist explains how a new commission that wants to measure the economic value of a college degree could end up devaluing the liberal arts.
In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.