Top college sports prospects get special advantages in their application and admission processes.
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College admissions advantages for recruited athletes likely perpetuate educational inequality even more than those given to children of alumni.
Encouraging students to study science and maths at university is only one step in a complex pipeline that turns out specialist teachers.
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Recruiting specialist teachers takes more than just encouraging them to study science and maths at university. Governments and wider society needs to come on board too.
Universities will now need to use common language around their admissions processes.
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Students feel they are not getting the support they need, despite research showing that the relationships students have with their lecturers can have a big influence over retention rates.
The US and UK dominate the international education market in Asia – but this is likely to change.
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The main failure of university expansion is the unwillingness to fund it. Costs are certainly escalating, but priorities are always political as well as financial.
What should government and students contribute towards university degrees?
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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.
Over the next 10 years, there is forecast to be 14 million more students studying in India.
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India has invested hugely in to reforming its higher education sector – Australia must view this as an opportunity to capitalise on this growth through partnerships and training schemes.
Part-time student enrolments have massively fallen across the UK.
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The case for apprenticeships – to a degree.
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First class teaching.
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The coalition is ploughing ahead with its plan to give schools more control of training new teachers. A recent announcement of government-funded places on teacher training courses for the next academic…