| The need for a values-based university curriculum | The shift from pedagogically based academic values to market-based values over the past 30 years has signalled not only a change in the basic fundamentals of educational philosophy in tertiary education; it has also presented us with real-world crises of economic irresponsibility, displacement, exclusion, division and inequality.Continue Reading
Reliance on foreign PhD students ‘could harm US research’ | Data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development analysed by Times Higher Education suggest that the country is falling behind many other developed nations on new PhD numbers. Although about 71,000 people gained a PhD in the US in 2017 – more than double the number in any other developed country – when this is scaled to population size, the number of doctoral graduates in the US falls below many other OECD member nations.Continue Reading
Outsourcing Student Success (Kindle Edition) | Click on the Image to Visit Amazon.com | International | The links between sexual harassment and corruption | Although very rarely, both Russian and Ukrainian media feature reports on sexual harassment at universities. Here are just a handful of examples. In Russia, a facultyContinue Reading
| How the student debt crisis falls hardest on black Americans | The question of student debt leaves Americans caught between a hammer and an anvil: Taking on that debt is a crucial tool by which students (and, by extension, their families) gain access to higher education. But at the same time, that debt is a threat to students’ future financial prospects. What the Roosevelt team teases out is that, thanks to the racial wealth gap — both the historical circumstances that birthed it, and its ongoing economic consequences — that paradox is worse for black students and their familiesContinue Reading
| International | Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy | Higher education can only fulfil its mission if it enjoys academic freedom and institutional autonomy…While concern about the state of academic freedom and institutional autonomy is near universal, the most salient issues vary between countries and continents. For example, the focus in the United States is largely on academic freedom and its relationship to the right to free speech on campus, most recently prompted by the alt-right movement. In Europe, the focus has so far largely been institutional autonomy.Continue Reading
