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The poor and worsening position of research is not self-correcting, and the sector needs to be redirected towards the solution of real world problems and developing an effective predictive capability.
Reforming Australia’s national curriculum to make it more knowledge-rich, as has happened in England, would be a step in the right direction.
Lawmakers who examined various incarnations of dual-enrollment programs were stunned to find students earning college credits for taking gym.
The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education.
Issues of happiness and conformity notwithstanding, one might still wonder about the affirmative case for elite colleges, especially when considering the effort it takes to gain admittance to one.
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories.
We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.
The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.
The better approach would be to invest meaningfully in the lousy schools that leave minority children so ill-prepared to compete.
In a classroom, curiosity should be sacred, because it motivates the pursuit of knowledge even when that includes ugly truths.
Medievalists of Color promptly issued a statement of support, describing Ramboran-Olm as “a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists.”
The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.
Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary
In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.