Women and early career academics are more likely to take up these teaching-only roles.
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Teaching-only positions are perceived as second class, with few opportunities for research or career progression.
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Muslims students’ experiences of higher education are not always positive.
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How to make campus safer for LGBTQ students.
Science and integrity is under the microscope.
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Gumtree Brutalism: the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library (1968), designed by Queensland architect James Birrell, on the James Cook University campus.
Academics are often in the vanguard of the fight to preserve heritage buildings but they are losing the battle on home turf as universities shed their 1960s and 1970s concrete skins.
Online education can work just as well in Africa.
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Even though online learning has finally come into its own in higher education internationally, East Africa appears reluctant to embrace it fully.
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Our globally interconnected world is not at peace with diversity, this is where internationalisation can step-in.
We need to rethink our educational model, says Jeffrey Bleich.
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We have the potential to liberate the workforce to do the one thing that machines can’t do – improve ourselves and the emotional lives of others.
Black South African students need fewer excuses and more support from universities.
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Students from South Africa’s public school system battle to cope with the rigorous demands of any university degree without genuine, committed support.
Figures show that few reports of sexual assault have resulted in the expulsion of the perpetrator from the university.
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Prevention messages by universities are often directed at the victim and what she or he can do to avoid being raped. This may then deter reporting of the incident.
Intellectual inquiry and expertise are under sustained attack, says Barney Glover.
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Our need for unbiased, well-researched information has never been greater.
Universities Australia chair Barney Glover will launch a defence of the value of expertise and evidence.
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Barney Glover says the post-truth era is a challenge for universities.
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With university graduates finding it harder to find jobs, questions have been raised about the merits of a typical tertiary qualification.
Many students often work part-time and have family responsibilities.
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How we calculate university drop-out rates must be amended to reflect the changing cohort of university students, who often dip in and out of study and take longer to complete their degree.
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But are UK universities running the risk of institutionalising public engagement?
A classroom at HM Prison Winson Green, in Birmingham.
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University students are learning with prisoners about crime and punishment.
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Financially illogical and fuelled by irrational dogma, the creation of a new tranche of private sector debt is a missed opportunity.
Among the Syrian refugee population it is estimated that there are 2,000 university professionals and 100,000 university qualified students.
Many academics are falling prey to predatory journals.
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Academics join public protests around the world against Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
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Academics worldwide are calling for the US president to reconsider the executive order on immigration, which many say is damaging to research collaboration.