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Troubled times call for strong leaders – so with tough challenges ahead, higher education needs to be looking forward 
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The science of learning has become embroiled in an ideological argument that has little to do with the reality of what it can and cannot do for teaching, argues Jared Cooney Horvath
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Federal government vows crackdown as institutions increased their vice-chancellor’s salaries amid job losses in the sector
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Since February, researchers have been surveying South Australian teachers about sexist views among their students.
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The pace of long-predicted college closings has sped up dramatically this spring, threatening to throw more and more students off the path to a degree.
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A new taskforce to police how universities are run will be pitched to state education ministers, as figures reveal the extent of corporatisation of university councils.
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At the end of last year, I wrote about a new online learning ranking announced by Times Higher Education (THE). At that stage, details were somewhat fuzzy, which, as might be expected, stimulated a lot of questions. On the whole, my conclusion was that an online learning ranking has the potential to
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The New Jersey Institute of Technology just published its 2030 strategic plan, outlining human-centered technology strategies that will build NJIT's unique values into its broader digital transformation.
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Even after her death, Lillian Orlich, who served as a teacher and counselor before retiring at the age of 89, is still helping a Virginia school system
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Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.
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The Albanese Labor Government today announced the locations of 10 new Regional University Study Hubs across the country, bringing university closer to students living in the regions.
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America’s Colleges Are Reaping What They Sowed
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Classrooms must be places of learning not conflict, where each child’s individual needs are understood and supported
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As police raided student protest encampments at American universities with rubber bullets and tear gas, in Melbourne academics brought jam and scones.
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"It is ironic that the institutions that award qualifications for teaching to not see the value in ensuring their own teachers are suitably qualified to teach. Unless universities are compelled to act, we will see the same issues raised in the next version of the Accord. More importantly, we will have not provided the high quality of teaching and learning that our students need and deserve."
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Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem.
Peter Mellow's insight:
I found this quote frightening! No evidence offered.
"A class isn’t just the fact of meeting at a given time, or a teacher imparting information during that meeting, or students’ to receiving and processing such information. A university classroom offers a destination for students on campus, providing an excuse to traverse the quads, backpack on one’s shoulders, realizing a certain image of college life. Once there, the classroom does real work, too. It bounds the space and attention of learning, it creates camaraderie, and it presents opportunities for discourse, flirtation, boredom, and all the other trappings of collegiate fulfillment. Take away the classroom, and what’s left? Often, a limp rehearsal of the act of learning, carried out by awkward or unwilling actors."
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
April 25, 8:23 PM
Interesting cynical quote from this article: A class isn’t just the fact of meeting at a given time, or a teacher imparting information during that meeting, or students’ to receiving and processing such information. A university classroom offers a destination for students on campus, providing an excuse to traverse the quads, backpack on one’s shoulders, realizing a certain image of college life. Once there, the classroom does real work, too. It bounds the space and attention of learning, it creates camaraderie, and it presents opportunities for discourse, flirtation, boredom, and all the other trappings of collegiate fulfillment. Take away the classroom, and what’s left? Often, a limp rehearsal of the act of learning, carried out by awkward or unwilling actors. If the pandemic gave rise to hygiene theater, it also brought us this: pedagogy theater.
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
April 28, 9:41 PM
I found this quote frightening! No evidence offered. "A class isn’t just the fact of meeting at a given time, or a teacher imparting information during that meeting, or students’ to receiving and processing such information. A university classroom offers a destination for students on campus, providing an excuse to traverse the quads, backpack on one’s shoulders, realizing a certain image of college life. Once there, the classroom does real work, too. It bounds the space and attention of learning, it creates camaraderie, and it presents opportunities for discourse, flirtation, boredom, and all the other trappings of collegiate fulfillment. Take away the classroom, and what’s left? Often, a limp rehearsal of the act of learning, carried out by awkward or unwilling actors."
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Colleges across the United States have been rocked by mass protests at institutions which began at Colombia University on April 17 and quickly spread to other institutions.
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Two existential threats to colleges and universities, one solution.
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According to the Office for National Statistics, only 24.9% of disabled adults aged 21-64 have a degree or above, compared with 42.7% of non-disabled adults. For disabled people, going to university almost halves the disability job gap – the difference in employment levels between disabled and...
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For Grace*, 2023 should have been the pinnacle of her teaching career.Five years after graduating university, she was settling into a full-term contract at her "dream job" on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, teaching at the high school she had attended growing up."I'd travelled around, I'd come back,...
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While women actively participate in the practical work at their organisation, men dodge it.
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I see this phenomenon in healthcare as well!
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The CUPA-HR 2023 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey was conducted to understand the factors driving the retention crisis after COVID-19. In th
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The suggested readings in this installment of the "Leaders Are Readers" series challenge traditional notions of productivity. They also underscore the
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A major survey of Australian school principals finds they are copping abuse from parents and students on top of huge workloads. Many experienced leaders say they might leave the profession.
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