Focusing on student learning preferences could boost the number of students from underrepresented groups earning science and engineering degrees.
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College admissions advantages for recruited athletes likely perpetuate educational inequality even more than those given to children of alumni.
Recruiting specialist teachers takes more than just encouraging them to study science and maths at university. Governments and wider society needs to come on board too.
The government has announced it will accept recommendations to make the university admissions process more transparent. But that alone isn’t enough.
Students feel they are not getting the support they need, despite research showing that the relationships students have with their lecturers can have a big influence over retention rates.
Political developments in the higher education sector in a number of Asian countries may threaten Australia’s billion-dollar education industry.
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.
The main failure of university expansion is the unwillingness to fund it. Costs are certainly escalating, but priorities are always political as well as financial.
Increasing the amount that students pay towards their degree is likely to be on the cards of higher education in this year’s election.
Low pay and status are the main factors turning potentially good teachers away from teaching. We need to work on making teaching an attractive profession.
India has invested hugely in to reforming its higher education sector – Australia must view this as an opportunity to capitalise on this growth through partnerships and training schemes.
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