Thousands of students are being signed up to courses that they have little or no chance of completing.
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Tightening regulation will contain the damage but this alone will not address the deeper problems in vocational education.
More than a third of school principals have suffered physical violence from parents and students.
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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 chapters from a textbook onto a website and call it a course.
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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.
Where in the UK do students get the most support for going to university?
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Welsh and Scottish students get more support than English and Northern Irish ones.
What are the alternative options for higher education to flourish in Australia?
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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.
Why are archaic tests being used today?
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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?
Should students know more about how their tuition fees are being spent?
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Being up front about what public investment goes towards in higher education is an important step for providing greater clarity for students.
Why the racist incidents at Mizzou are not surprising.
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I taught at Mizzou from 1996 to 2008. Here’s why the events don’t surprise me.
They have to learn it somewhere.
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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.
Debt lost from graduates working overseas is estimated to cost the taxpayer around $30m a year.
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Australians who live in another country for more than six months will now have to pay back their student loans.
What difference can a teaching assistant make?
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Can the race of a teaching assistant have an impact on student grades?
Research, rather than teaching, benefits from the revenue gained from increasing student numbers.
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The decline in government investment in higher education and the ever-increasing reliance on fees has made universities more like private for-profit corporations.
Anything wrong with unis spending tuition-fee money on research?
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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.
Dance is about creating work in a collaborative way.
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Liberal arts institutions teach students critical thinking skills. But rarely do they learn how to collaborate.
Getting into the spirit at Temple University.
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UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
The number of part-time students has dropped off a cliff.
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The number of part-time students has dropped dramatically and even those who get to university feel side-lined.
University isn’t the best option for everyone.
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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?
Simplifying a problem can make it easier to solve.
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Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
How not to make them feel welcome.
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A checklist of how countries can be as uncompetitive as possible in attracting overseas students.
Gender plays a role in what you read for courses.
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Female scholars tend to assign more readings from women authors. But then male instructors assign more of their own work.