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A new report offers recommendations for how to best reform the education system in India.
Universities deemed excellent at teaching will be allowed to raise their fees in line with inflation.
New proposals on the table for higher education are riven with contradictions.
South Africa’s universities are in a state of upheaval. Academic developers must rethink their own purpose and how they work with academics in this environment to foster positive change.
Two narratives have emerged from student protests in South Africa: reform on the one hand - and revolution on the other. Which narrative will triumph?
The students’ movement has stretched South Africans in personal, professional, powerful and provocative ways. Have academics been stretched enough to reflect deeply on the status quo at universities?
A new government green paper has proposed a raft of reforms for regulating higher education.
Quality higher education is crucial for recovery, peace-building, economic development and stronger governance in post-conflict societies.
How can the higher education sector guard against proposed transformation measures being merely superficial quick fixes? At least part of the answer may lie in institutional governance.
Cutting vital research infrastructure funding because the higher education reforms are stuck in the Senate could end up costing the country dearly.
Labour’s much anticipated but yet-to-be confirmed policy to reduce the cap on university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 a year will be highly expensive, could leave universities £10 billion out of…
The release of the 1988-89 cabinet documents show that the Hawke government’s plans for Australian higher education were in some ways as radical as the policies that Education Minister Christopher Pyne…
In the current rush to achieve the highest student satisfaction and best positions on university league tables we are at significant risk of dumbing down what’s being taught at universities. At both traditional…
“There is no conflict between fair access and academic excellence. Nor should there be.” So said Les Ebdon, director of fair access to higher education in his latest report to parliament. But when it comes…
The recent University Alliance report on quality in higher education brings into sharp focus one of the major issues facing contemporary UK higher education: how we ensure that the sector maintains its…
Chile’s newly re-elected president Michelle Bachelet has announced a radical set of educational reforms that are set to review the country’s market-based approach to primary and secondary education. Bachelet’s…
The raising of the cap on tuition fees charged by universities in England to £9,000 per year in 2012 does not currently look like it will save the government much money – but it has led to a substantial…
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Professor, School of Management, University of Bath
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Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Affairs and the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic), Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Warwick
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Academic Staff Development Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town
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Vice President/Vice Principal (Service), King's College London
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Director, Pathways and Academic Learning Support (PALS) Centre, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, School of Business, Eastern Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor & Academic Director, Widening Participation, La Trobe University
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