Forcing universities to only serve the needs of the labour market undermines their abilities to educate students and conduct research.
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Nigeria’s lecturers’ strike raises fundamental questions about how Nigerian universities are run and funded.
Puerto Rico has reached an agreement to partially settle its historic bankruptcy crisis. But public cuts to education and health care are unlikely to ease, creating ongoing challenges for Puerto Ricans
The subsidies for student places up to 2024 fall about $1.1 billion short of the level needed to create the extra places the government promised its Job-ready Graduates policy would deliver.
With high fees and COVID restrictions in place, student satisfaction in England is on the downturn. How should they think about the value of their studies?
Universities will need strategies that can defuse constant disruption of learning due to student protest.
The 2021 Federal Budget should be used as an opportunity to invest in ideas: in arts, culture, universities, the ABC, and First Nations Australians.
It’s one of the largest funding cuts to any university course, and will leave Australia ill-equipped to deal with the environmental challenges of the future.
What is musicology and why is it important?
Three decades ago, in another time of upheaval in higher education, 7% of working-age Australians had a degree. Today 33% have one. More people than ever have a stake in what happens to universities.
The implications of the government’s announcement are about more than incentivising the career trajectories of students. They are a direct assault on the premise of universities.
The education minister has outlined reforms to higher education funding aimed at producing ‘job ready graduates’. But his announcements don’t seem completely in line with the data.
In 2018, domestic numbers for undergraduate courses fell for the first time since 2013 – they will remain stagnant for some years. This and other factors put unis at face financial risk.
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 freeze on university funding not only limits opportunities for students, it puts limitations on the communities unis serve, the economy, and business interested in forming collaborations.
The fact that a university has a surplus doesn’t mean it has a profit to be either reinvested or returned to shareholders. Grants, for example, should be spent on the projects they’re intended for.
South Africa’s universities have been told to set their own fee increases for 2017. That’s good news for institutions, but it hasn’t been well-received by many students.
Academia is being asked to do less for more, and universities are at financial breaking point. This has implications for all South Africans.
One option could be to cut per-student funding and instead raise the student contribution from an average of about 40% to 50%, by raising HECS caps.
Over the next ten years, 40% of jobs are predicted to disappear. Universities will be essential to helping people reskill, upskill and reinvent their jobs.
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Chancellor, Victoria University
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Gavin Moodie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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President and Vice Chancellor, Monash University
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Honorary Fellow, Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Victoria University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Victoria University
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Executive Director, IRU, La Trobe University
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Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Vice-Chancellor, Southern Cross University
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Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle
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Social policy and consumer finance researcher, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Professor of International Affairs and the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), Carleton University
