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Throughout August, many universities have have open days as students investigate different courses and options for study.
The federal government wants to boost the number of Australians from equity groups at university. But its new funding plans lack some important details.
The cost to apply for a visa to study in Australia just more than doubled. This fee is non-refundable.
It’s important that universities publicly acknowledge the importance of Black-affirming community spaces and the role they play in Black student well-being and academic success.
Education Minister Jason Clare has released more details on how the federal government wants to make changes to university funding and student places.
Canadian universities’ requests for court orders and police enforcement to clear Palestine solidarity encampments raise questions about the legal status of encampments and the use of injunctions.
Students renaming campus buildings during ongoing protests follows years of campus renaming controversies. A study of campus naming policies proposes how to make naming more inclusive.
Measuring student engagement through online platforms may sound like a good idea. But we need a much clearer understanding of what we are actually measuring here.
A major unanswered question is what the caps will be and how they will be calculated.
Finding a balance between sometimes contradictory definitions of the role of universities will be the first challenge for the University Advisory Group.
Private tech companies screening international students on behalf of public schools should be required to disclose more about their algorithms and training data.
Recent student protests are attempts to humanize the Palestinians in desperate need of a ceasefire. Students deserve a dignity-affirming dialogue, not the continued use of police brutality.
Andrew Norton, professor in the practice of higher education policy at the ANU, joined the podcast to dissect the governments new policy to cap international student intake.
An ‘apprenticeship’ system would undermine teaching’s role as a profession, and separate trainees from the evolving research and knowledge that university-based training provides.
Canada needs the arts, with its insights into human behaviour and thinking, more than ever. But governments and funding agencies should shift funding models for arts graduate education.
Nothing Hamas has done was comparable to October 7, and nothing Israel has done is comparable to what it continues to do since that day. Student protests, in this context, inspire a measure of hope.
Unless and until student encampments become an unreasonably severe disruption to the enjoyment of university spaces, there is no argument supporting state intervention.
International students have come under fire for their supposed impact on Australian housing. Our research shows they are finding it stressful and difficult to secure accommodation.
Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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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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Research Affiliate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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Chief Data Officer, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) and Senior Vice-President, Monash University
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Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne