VET’s role in employable skill development is critical. But we also need to strongly support the role VET plays in getting disadvantaged groups into education and work.
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What Strickland achieved is impressive. But it isn’t a sign that the patriarchy is being smashed.
Efforts to conserve nature needs to include communities.
Under representation of women in the science and engineering career fields is a result of poor work life balance.
From the 20th-century process of policy trial and error, the nations that married the strengths of markets and government came out ahead.
Dozens of US cities have launched bike-share programs in the past decade. There have been bumps – critics want wider access, and cities want bikes stored out of the way – but bike sharing is on a roll.
How do LGBTQ people navigate international business, scholarship or sports competition when traveling to countries hostile to LGBTQ people?
Calls to “indigenize” universities must start with listening - to Indigenous scholars and nations. And real reparation will be painful for settlers, for it will be unsettling.
In cities dominated by globalised market forces, how can we achieve social equity and justice? For any sharing economy idea, we need to ask what will it do to fix the big problems confronting us all.
Despite its name, cryptocurrency isn’t just money. It could also be debt or equity and so it should be regulated and taxed in the same way as other finance.
Australia was ranked top of the world in terms of the efficiency of our health care system and health outcomes, but only seventh in terms of equity.
For the first time in Australia, more higher-density housing than detached housing was being built last year. Compact cities have pros and cons, but the downsides fall more heavily on the poor.
Research laboratories are dominated by men, and that’s not only bad for lab culture, it can be dangerous for science.
What is an economy for? And how do we build a community where everyone belongs? We need to answer questions like these to create good, sustainable cities.
City dwellers are individually starting to do their bit to live sustainably. Now pioneering businesses are aiming to make ecological and social sustainability part of their bottom line.
Addressing social and health inequalities from pollution is no longer a priority at the EPA. What did the Office of Environmental Justice do and what will happen if it’s shut down?
The slow pace of transformation in post apartheid South Africa is a reflection of persisting racism that has infected formal corporate institutions.
A new proposed deal on school funding delivers the Gonski funding within budget.
A recent study of firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange suggests that companies with gender-diverse boards are more responsible corporate citizens.
Mentoring support and campus visits are a couple of ways of familiarising students with university.
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Teaching and Leadership, University of North Dakota
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute, University of Toronto
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Special Adviser to the President, EDID (Curriculum Transformation) and Professor, School of Professional Communication, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Health Equity, Stretton Health Equity, School of Public Health, Adelaide University
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