Through “risk-sharing,” colleges could be on the hook to help pay back student loans if too many students default. A scholar who studies the ethics of debt examines how risk-sharing could backfire.
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There is no system in place to detect charitable fraud on the scale allegedly committed by a counseling company and its sham nonprofit.
If South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill is accepted as is, it will be detrimental to academic content production.
The college admission scandal that involved big bribes, coaches and Hollywood actors grew out of a system that favors rich parents and gives coaches too much leeway in admissions, a scholar argues.
New research pinpoints why so many students struggle to nod off at university.
Educational inequality in the UK takes root before children even begin primary school.
When colleges rush to serve the needs of business, they risk losing sight of their purpose and entering into bad deals with a selfish partner, a scholar of research and business argues.
Children in England are among the most tested and unhappiest in the western world.
Why a recent report, backed by university staff, argues that institutions should start offering students places after they’ve received their A-level results.
Data science is going to grow over the coming decades and requires trained graduates who can handle the work.
While international students do need baseline proficiency in English, they need support the whole way through their degrees to actually be successful.
Without the support of extended curriculum programmes at universities, many students would face academic exclusion.
Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world’s greatest centers for mathematical research.
Rather than bypass college to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, members of Generation Z are increasingly partnering with universities to launch new startups, a university president says.
Tensions between the government and the university sector ran high in 2018, with the government cutting funding to student places and research and a big push back from universities.
The absence of strict law enforcement against perpetrators has meant institutions of higher education continue to have high numbers of sexual violence cases.
How an increased use of technology could widen the gender pay gap in higher education.
In order to regain public confidence, universities must take steps to show citizens that investments in higher education are well-spent, an education professor and university professor argue.
Glyn Davis lays out the evidence (or lack thereof) for the argument that free speech on campuses is at risk.
Government remains the major funder of universities. But it hasn’t met its obligations even though many institutions face serious infrastructure decay.
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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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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Chief Data Officer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos
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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
