The ABC recently apologised to staff for racism and cultural insensitivity in its newsrooms. This came after Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse ABC staff told an internal group they felt unwelcome in their workplace, their ideas were not being listened to and they received online abuse from the public. Unfortunately these issues are not unique to […] … learn more→

Performance-based funding – a policy in which states fund public colleges based on certain student outcomes, such as how many students graduate – hasn’t benefited all students equally in Tennessee and Ohio. That’s according to a study in which we analyze U.S. Department of Education data on public colleges and universities in these states between 2004-2015. We […] … learn more→

To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career. However, research has shown that despite all that effort, most college science courses give students only a fragmented understanding of fundamental scientific concepts. The teaching […] … learn more→

More and more scientific journals are announcing their move to open access. From that moment on, all the articles they publish can be freely read. Who is going to be against such a laudable movement that seeks to make scientific publications open access? Bearing in mind that every product costs money and that scientific publications are no […] … learn more→

Australia is facing serious labour and skills shortages both now and in the longer term. The immediate priority is to help employers fill current vacancies. In the longer term, the government needs to ensure its investments in education and training prepare Australia for future skill needs and opportunities arising from rapid technological change and other grand challenges like climate […] … learn more→

In 2019, the government launched a mobilization and support strategy for carers , finally making visible those who on a daily basis work alongside “a loved one with a loss of autonomy for reasons related to age, disability , chronic or disabling disease. The question of aid was late in the political debate. However, with the aging of […] … learn more→

“The foundation of democratic and liberal societies is the critical spirit, which is nourished by knowledge of the humanities. Without exception, totalitarian states reject the teaching of the humanities , and states that reject this teaching always become totalitarian”. These were the words of Takamitsu Sawa, then president of Shiga University in Japan, in 2015 in response to a statement by […] … learn more→

While face-to-face classes are back after the COVID disruptions of the past two years, our research suggests at least some Australian universities intend to continue with fully online assessment. Students say they think cheating is easier online. There is some evidence it increased with the shift online. Yet our research, covering 41 Australian universities, has found little evidence of changes in their […] … learn more→

In the last two years we have changed. Changes have been accelerated and entrenched in the way we buy, pay, meet, and also in the way we learn. We are discovering digital tools, and we use them in an increasingly better, more effective and practical way, in our day to day. We have changed, in some things, for […] … learn more→

The question of the “cart culture” may come up regularly in the media, be the subject of a ministerial working group and measures in the national higher education schools of architecture, it remains a difficult subject when we discuss the architects professional model. As I finished writing this article and discussed its content with my […] … learn more→