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More high school students are taking college courses while still in high school. But equity gaps exist, with Black and Hispanic students participating at lower rates.
Stuff cuts are just the most visible aspect of critical problems within the modern university, as a new survey of academic workers reveals.
Why The Conversation U.S. started an investigative unit.
The road to becoming a champion speller is made easier with support from family and friends, but ultimately it depends on an individual student’s commitment to learning, a scholar writes.
Journalists, policymakers and academics are among those whose worlds could be turned upside down by AI chatbots.
ChatGPT is a sophisticated AI program that generates text from vast databases. But it doesn’t understand the information it produces, which also can’t be verified through scientific means.
In its present form, the new Higher Education Bill lacks a governance framework that addresses the complaints of fee-paying students.
Billions of dollars are being spent on tutoring in the US. Will it be enough to help schoolchildren make up for pandemic learning loss? An education economist weighs in.
Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
College students who are focused on career goals and personal growth – and growth for others – tend to fare better academically, new research finds.
Casual or short-term contracts, a lack of professional development, little hope of career progression: a survey of academic working conditions sounds a warning.
Over the course of a career and retirement, gender pay gaps lead to a difference of roughly half-a-million dollars for women professors relative to their male counterparts.
Strikes have had a negative impact on Nigeria but private universities have benefited.
Grouping of high schools in Ghana into categories perpetuates inequalities.
The problem with chronic absenteeism isn’t so much that kids are missing instruction time; it’s that unexcused absences may indicate crises at home, new research suggests.
Academics in all areas have deep concerns about their ability to undertake research during the pandemic and the flow-on effects of this. Women and early career researchers were particularly hard hit.
The pandemic is forcing many academics to consider their future. These are tough times for universities and many have lost jobs, but those fortunate enough to have a choice should weigh up all options.
Does intellectual freedom mean academics can say what they want in whatever way they choose? Tim Anderson had a win this week, but a judge must still decide whether he was wrongfully dismissed.
With Congress designating Aug. 11, 2021, as Hip-Hop Celebration Day, a scholar and performer of the art form makes the case for hip-hop to become more prominent in American academe.
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Director of research training, Australian National University
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Professor of Education and Social Justice, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Lecturer in Law, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
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Distinguished Professor of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, Royal Holloway University of London
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Lecturer in the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of History, Australian National University
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, Monash University
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Chancellor, Western Sydney University
