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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”.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that government expenditure on higher education and specifically universities will be the fastest growing expenditure items on the budget.
South Africa’s 2016 medium term budget was awaited with bated breath amid rising political tensions, increasingly violent student protests and the threat of a credit downgrade.
Mind blanks are typically triggered in response to a perceived threat. The chemical process that takes place essentially clears out your working memory, quiets logical processes, and walls off memory.
TCUS launched on October 21, 2014 with six editors. Today we are 12 editors and growing.
Vocational Education and Training helps low school achievers up skill and avoid disadvantage in the workplace.
Who am I, as an academic, to decide in advance what is or what is not triggering to others?
‘Posh white girls’ are unjustifiably taking the brunt of reports of the last art history A-level but casualties are all those the exam board had been moving to reach out to.
A new clause being embedded in a number of university contracts attempts to restrict academics from speaking freely in public debate about issues that are outside their area of research.
International students’ diverse backgrounds and experiences enrich the entire student body, and society more broadly.
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National 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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Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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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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Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Bath
