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The path to employment is not easy for a young person. Follow the lines in our flow chart to see the many different pathways young people might have to take to secure a job.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
In future, we’ll all need to be a little more like Leonardo da Vinci.
Writer and social commentator Jane Caro told Q&A that Australia has one of the most unequal education systems in the OECD. Is that right?
Around the world, leading universities have established themselves as well-known brands. In France, we haven’t yet entered the race for global higher education.
A violent attack on a female student at one of South Africa’s prominent universities was not an isolated incident. It told a universal tale of how patriarchy still rules.
Young people are pressured into university and many end up in unsuitable courses. We need to recognise these realities and be clear about the purpose of higher education so it doesn’t lose its value.
Improving data quality and accessibility will provide an important platform for business, policy innovation and academic research.
Engagement is not impact, and simple measures such as non-government research income tell us very little about genuine external engagement between universities and industry.
Students are going back to their campuses, and ought to be aware of the danger.
In the May Budget, the government may look for ways to shift the costs of higher education from the taxpayer to the student.
Claims of whitewashing have been levelled against an Australian university for encouraging students to use particular language about Indigenous peoples. It was the right thing to do.
A new report has called on the government to lower the threshold at which university graduates repay their debt from $54,126 to $42,000. But is this fair on students?
Lowering maths prerequisites to study science, engineering and commerce at university has led to students playing catch up for years. This should be fixed.
It’s a common assumption that library use is plummeting – but that depends on which libraries you look at.
Lack of confidence, negative attitudes and low student participation rates are just a few of the challenges maths and science teachers face.
Low pay and status are the main factors turning potentially good teachers away from teaching. We need to work on making teaching an attractive profession.
The ATAR system is cheap and efficient, but it means students are selected to go to university on the basis of a single score which some have claimed is too simplisitc. Is it time for a new system?
Universities must redress, not reinforce, disadvantage by ensuring more students from lower socio-economic backgrounds have the chance to benefit form them.
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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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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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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Data Officer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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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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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
