A study asked university teachers to share some of their students’ anonymous survey feedback. The results reveal insults and hate speech many lecturers deal with each year.
Regions with higher than average university attainment in the 1960s continue to have higher university attainment rates today.
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Universities must be considered as not only in crisis but also as drivers of crisis in a world of climate change, biodiversity loss, authoritarianism and deep social and economic inequalities.
As Western and Indonesian academics continue to engage in co-operation, we should find common ways of counteracting discrimination, including discriminatory practices against the LGBT community.
At the last election, Labor and the Coalition offered very different policies on university funding. Not so this time round, but the current flawed funding system could be improved further.
A student with a disability is guided by a volunteer during a campus orientation at Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta in September 2021.
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If colleges want to address systemic racism within their institutions, they can start by crediting female faculty members of color for work that gets overlooked. A group of higher ed researchers explains how.
The federal government has for months been unclear about when international students could return to Australia. And there are still many uncertainties about the latest announcement.
Students matching the ‘traditional’ applicant’s profile see university as a stepping stone to a good job. Those from less-well-represented groups care more about higher education’s intrinsic value.
Most of the universities whose graduates earn more after nine years in the workforce are in NSW and ACT. That suggests it’s more about where the best-paid jobs are than the universities themselves.
The metaverse promises overlap between real and digital worlds.
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The metaverse may change how profit is made in higher education.
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of the national Feeding America anti-hunger network, meets with Jay Worrall, president of a Pennsylvania food bank.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest ranking indicates that the coronavirus and heightened awareness about racism made a difference, but not necessarily a lasting one.
South Africa’s current basic education system and the grading standard produce poor academic quality.
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South Africa’s Department of Basic Education is more concerned about the proportion of pupils that pass to make school leavers and their parents happy.
Prisons seem an unlikely source of outstanding university students, but it is. What’s more, those who have done such study are much less likely to reoffend when they get out.
COVID-19 forced the rapid upskilling of academics and students to teach and learn remotely in ways unfamiliar to most.
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The shift to emergency remote teaching and learning enabled academics to start questioning some long-held assumptions about in-person teaching and learning.