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Research writing events have become a popular way for academics to develop their writing skills and socialise with others.
Australians who live in another country for more than six months will now have to pay back their student loans.
We can’t fulfil Malcolm Turnbull’s ambition for an innovative nation without understanding why researchers are struggling to engage with industry.
A new government green paper has proposed a raft of reforms for regulating higher education.
The #feesmustfall movement brought gains for democracy. As relatively free spaces for enquiry, universities have a public duty to fight, not facilitate, a slide into a national security state.
Universities are cutting and streamlining their courses in an attempt to make graduates more employable. But lots of graduates are still struggling to find work, so why isn’t it working?
Funding for South African higher education is inadequate considering past inequalities. Even more alarming is the fact that plans for research development and innovation in science remain elusive.
In a country as unequal as South Africa, the people who have access to higher education have the power to shape the society, including its elites and middle class.
The decline in government investment in higher education and the ever-increasing reliance on fees has made universities more like private for-profit corporations.
UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
Innovative new forms of funding must be pursued to address the higher education challenges in South Africa.
Less than half of young people in Australia go to university, so why do we make this the gold standard that all should strive for?
Small island universities can add to the sum total of African knowledge in a number of ways.
A new study shows that academics in regional universities are more likely to experience bullying than their city peers.
A school in south London has become the latest building to win the UK’s most prestigious architecture accolade, fuelling the debate as to the importance of architecture to learning.
Emerging science could help us gain a better understanding of the annual phenomenon of students falling ill when they head back to uni.
New research finds the graduate premium is higher for women than men - but the gender pay gap is still stark.
The university should be the bastion of the right to free expression in the promotion of democracy, and has a moral and ethical obligation to provide spaces for fierce debate and critical engagement.
Many people think that the admissions process should take into account the type of school students attended.
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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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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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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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
