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The pandemic has negatively affected female and racialized faculty. Universities need to make sure their career advancement doesn’t suffer.
Stress and anxiety levels among academics are on the rise, and some of the blame lies with ideologies that expect scholars to be leaders.
Risk has to do with uncertainty; people struggle to conceptualise and manage that which they’re unsure about. This is true in the higher education sector, too.
It’s easy to understand why the government treats each student demand as distinct. But these are complex issues and they are intertwined.
Africa’s universities supposedly became more independent after the early 1990s. But it appears they haven’t achieved much more than cosmetic autonomy from political interference.
Retention and attrition rates have been a major concern to universities for many years, so much so that there are publications dedicated solely to the issue. Although universities and colleges are basically…
On Sunday, La Trobe University held its most successful Open Day ever, with more than 19,000 visitors. But the day was disrupted by student protests against recently announced changes to our Faculty of…
The collaborative spirit once embraced by universities in the pursuit of community service is giving way to confidentiality and secrecy as top-down managerialism takes hold, a conference on higher education…
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Academic, First Year College, Victoria University
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Senior lecturer, Massey University
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Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Marketing, Victoria University
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Distinguished Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Manager Centre for Applied Risk Management (UARM) and Associate Professor Risk Management, North-West University
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Programme Officer for Research (Higher Education), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia
