We take a closer look at some of the common claims made this year to see if there is any truth to them.
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Gonski funding was scrapped and the vocational education sector got a new student loan system. Here’s what else happened in education this year…
Working-class students are put off by a perceived future of low pay and high debt.
If education and tolerance go hand in hand, how is it possible that anti-immigrant sentiments are so virulent in educated populations?
Visa regulations are making the UK a less attractive option for Indian students.
While spending has grown for preschools, schools and universities, vocational education misses out.
A flat-rate fee on all student loans is a fairer economic proposal.
Exams do have a purpose, but they shouldn’t be used to assess the recall of meaningless facts.
What students can learn from time spent in care homes.
In praise of the teaching excellence framework.
Being a good critical thinker is a desirable and highly-sought after trait for getting a job in today’s economy. But are universities actually teaching this skill effectively?
Highly restrictive speech codes are now the norm in some of the world’s universities.
There are currently far too few vacant academic jobs in Australia each year to employ all our PhD students. It’s time to rethink the training of doctoral students.
The government has announced it will accept recommendations to make the university admissions process more transparent. But that alone isn’t enough.
Because it’s not always as simple as ‘yes means yes’.
If researchers pose the right questions about transformation, this can lead to better answers, stronger policies and, ultimately, real change.
Not every student will publish work or win prizes and very few will be able to earn a living putting pen to paper, but the teaching of creative writing is about more than that.
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”.
Top contributors
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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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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Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Professor of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos
