Finding a balance between sometimes contradictory definitions of the role of universities will be the first challenge for the University Advisory Group.
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With 13 universities in the top 200 in the new aggregated ranking system known as ARTU, Australia ranks fourth in the world and is part of a rising new order in the global higher education sector.
When talking about the role that higher education can play in developing Africa, it’s important not to forget the continuing and crucial role of the continent’s flagship universities.
Private school graduates earn more and are more likely to get top professional jobs. It has a lot to do with their grades.
Universities are public in nature but don’t represent a cross-section of the public. So who do they serve?
From the “best beaches” to the “best slice of pizza” to the best hospital to have cardiac surgery in, we are inundated with a seemingly never-ending series of reports ranking everything that can be ranked…
The belief of Australia’s Group of Eight elite universities that fee deregulation will allow them to fund their chase for global prestige is based on a fundamental misreading of the economics of elite…
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