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The time has come to abolish university examinations. Just because something has been around a long time there’s no reason to assume it’s outdated. But in the case of exams that assumption would be right…
Failure to reverse a downturn in international student enrolments could cost billions to Australia’s GDP and over 45,000 jobs by the end of the decade, a report has found. International student enrolments…
Imagine the following conversation between a finance academic and his or her supervisor during an annual performance review: Academic: So, do you think I am ready for a promotion? Supervisor: Well, I see…
The most feared exam in the world has been dropped. For over a century those hoping to study at All Souls College in Oxford opened an envelope with trepidation to discover just one word inside. They then…
The Australian government has dropped the contentious system of ranking academic journals and assessing academics based on their ability to publish in the top-ranked publications. Previously, journals…
“Australia’s universities, like its wine, are decent and dependable, but seldom excellent.” So said The Economist magazine, in a piece published online. We asked Australian tertiary education experts to…
Australia’s medical schools need a 50% increase in federal funding to boost the proportion of places available to domestic students and reduce their reliance on international fee-paying students, the peak…
In Australian universities at the moment research is everything. They obsess over the rankings in the new ERA system which measures research performance. For academics publishing in the top journals isn’t…
With its electoral support eroding, the federal government has been careful not to trigger frustration or disappointment in higher education and research. These have been largely Labor constituencies since…
If you’re in politics, population matters. Rival studies on what constitutes a sustainable Australian population project wildly different statistics. But behind the figures are real people whose lives…
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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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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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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Producer, Social and Political Sciences Program, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Director, Policy Impact, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, School of Education, University of Newcastle
