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Governments must take urgent steps to revamp rural universities.
Papua, one of Indonesia’s most rural provinces, struggled with online learning during the COVID-19 crisis. Interestingly, it may just be the right moment to invest in Papua’s education technology.
When colleges and universities provide better funding for Ph.D. students, more students – especially students of color – apply.
Here’s what the education system needs to do to help teachers address, repair and heal education towards and beyond reconciliation.
Accountancy firm KPMG’s plans for greater social balance should be applauded.
Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.
Are comparisons to war a good way to make a point in debates about education? A scholar of communication says it depends on the analogies and how they are used.
Plus, new research into what happens in our brains when we daydream. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Comments made during class discussions about 9/11 often put Muslim students on edge, according to a researcher who interviewed 55 Muslim students in and around the nation’s capital.
As missionaries expanded into Africa, they held a special grudge against polygamy. Here’s how that affected education.
Vaccinations, masks and some distancing – along with low community transmission – can help protect students in classrooms and cafeterias.
The idea that exams exist to help universities and employers pick candidates is deeply entrenched – and misguided.
Much of the US has been experiencing heat waves in recent weeks. An economist explains how the often record-high temperatures can affect the economy.
Access to quality infrastructure is important for students to succeed. However, resilience should be encouraged in the pursuit of academic success.
The Algebra Project – a long-standing initiative to teach algebra to Black students who might not otherwise take it – sprang from Bob Moses’ work as a civil rights activist, a historian recounts.
As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Just because students are given the freedom to learn, it does not mean they will.
Although Ghana has not been affected by religious conflict, the ways youth from the Muslim minority relate to their nation is an important question.
New laws that take aim at critical race theory could pose serious dilemmas for teachers when it comes to describing America’s past, a curriculum specialist says.
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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