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.
College campuses can be unwelcoming environments for racial minorities.
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A longstanding view of minorities as outsiders contributes to negative encounters with campus police. A researcher argues how greater empathy can lessen the urge to call the police in the first place.
Transport and livestock are both significant contributors to nitrogen pollution.
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Ee Ling Ng, The University of Melbourne; Deli Chen, The University of Melbourne, dan Xia Liang, The University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is the first institution in Australia to have its nitrogen footprint calculated – it’s 139 tonnes per year, mainly because of food production, energy use and transport.
The Australian National University has been working with intelligence agencies to minimise the impact of a cyber attack on its systems.
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Universities are uniquely placed to ensure that those who manage security of networks and data work closely with those who research and study the same problem.
Academics and PhD students from a number of Australian universities have reported sexualised bullying, unfair workloads, sexual harassment and in some cases even sexual assault, usually from their superiors and supervisors.
Robert Ralphs, Manchester Metropolitan University; Mike Salinas, Manchester Metropolitan University, dan Rebecca Askew, Manchester Metropolitan University
Students used to take drugs to get high, now they are using them to get better grades.
Ironically, Paterson claims to be arguing in favour of “free speech”, when his views would undermine intellectual freedom.
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Most universities do, in fact, mention academic freedom in several policy documents, such as enterprise bargaining agreements and other codes of conduct.
Though some have suggested that college majors should be scrapped, a higher education scholar warns that getting rid of college majors may create more problems than it solves.
When conflicts over whether nonprofits have kept their word about how they said they’d use big gifts crop up, donors rarely get everything they demand as reimbursement.
Australian higher education policy debates focus primarily on how and by whom universities are funded. This diminishes understanding of universities’ democratic purpose and wider social mission.
Amber Miller, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Today many Americans see universities negatively. But, as the dean of USC Dornsife argues, academia has a unique capacity to solve society’s problems. Yes, astrophysicists can help law enforcement.
Attending an elite university appears to play a comparatively small role in determining a graduate’s starting salary.
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Attending an elite university plays a small role in an undergraduate’s starting salary compared to other factors, such as high ATAR, the field of study they chose and the region in which they work.
International students and immigrants learn about the Canadian workplace at the BEST conference at Dalhousie University in Halifax in March.
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Ottawa and the governments of all four Maritime provinces have created pathways to help international students transition to permanent resident status. But fear causes too many to return home.