Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.
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As the National Science Foundation starts giving out fewer grants, people worldwide will potentially lose out from potential research findings that could help improve their lives.
The bill is likely to create new challenges for public schools serving children and youth, as well as for university Faculties of Education aiming to prepare the next generations of teachers.
The Trump administration is reportedly working on a revised version of the higher education proposal.
A small portion of university research funding comes from individual donors. Most universities have policies in place to protect against wrongdoing.
Courts and universities should distinguish between students who won’t pay and those who can’t – and help them to pay.
The rise of nationalist politics is important, but so is higher education reform.
The true commitment to racial justice lies not in performative statements, but in sustained support for marginalized scholars and research, even during economic and political precarity.
According to some observers, the ‘hottest topic’ for 2025 is whether universities have lost the public’s support to operate.
Only by considering conditions specific to post-secondary education today can educators reimagine more engaged and critical learning.
The UK’s new government will need to set priorities for investment in higher education.
Big EdTech is increasingly filling a gap left by university underfunding. But tertiary stakeholders must question whether such “solutions” really contribute to a university education.
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.
We have a formula that would direct international students to institutions that also enrol large proportions of domestic students.
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.
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 new government is facing some very thorny challenges where progress will be tricky – and costly.
Education Minister Jason Clare has released more details on how the federal government wants to make changes to university funding and student places.
Finding a balance between sometimes contradictory definitions of the role of universities will be the first challenge for the University Advisory Group.
Kenya’s university reforms are silent on government funding, which is the major source of their current financial challenges.
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