Many higher education institutions are focusing on innovation to be relevant. But this is only half of the puzzle. They also need to be teaching students how to be entrepreneurs.
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In September, many universities are making early offers to Year 12 students. This is a contentious practice but research shows it can provide much-needed support to young people.
Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely to stay in their major.
Alcohol is a window into American history, from 17th-century rum production to young people’s declining interest in drinking today.
With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living laboratories.
Students are less likely to identify as nonbinary in states with anti-trans policies.
The fossil fuel industry uses universities to authenticate themselves as players in developing climate solutions, while they expand extraction and grow profits. Universities must disclose their ties.
African immigrant students sometimes experience negative stereotyping, marginalization and low expectations from teachers. But emerging research shows they are being mischaracterized.
This week, Education Minister Jason Clare made an announcement that could reshape the landscape of international education in Australia.
While caps will force some universities to reject students they would otherwise have enrolled, other universities may not be able to fully use their international student quota.
Jobs and child care duties can seriously hamper a student’s chances of finishing college. The problem affects Black and Hispanic students and women in particular.
Artificial intelligence ‘bots’ may be widely available to teach in the coming years. But will they be effective? An expert on technology in education weighs in.
Every year, international students offer a welcome infusion of financial aid to communities across the US.
University courses are about a lot more than immediate employment prospects, or ‘degree equals job’.
We have a formula that would direct international students to institutions that also enrol large proportions of domestic students.
Cats provide a purr-fect introduction to science topics, including ecology, evolution, genetics and behavior.
A new report argues a huge number of recent migration policy changes are already reducing international student numbers.
From educational gag orders to the decline of tenure-track positions, academic freedom in the United States has been worsening in recent years.
Don’t forget about your wellbeing as you plan your life beyond school. Prospective students should ask questions about academic, financial and health supports available at universities.
Doctoral students are an important part of New Zealand’s future knowledge economy. But funding challenges and decades of benign neglect have left the research sector struggling.
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Higher Education, UCL
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University