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Performance assessment, Students, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission

Universities need to focus on students—not teach to targets—to help them succeed

Catherine Carroll-Meehan, University of Portsmouth and Harriet Dunbar-Morris, University of Portsmouth

Kate Kultsevych/Shutterstock The Office for Students, England’s higher education regulator, has outlined new proposals to ensure university students reach “acceptable outcomes” from […]

Equity and social justice, Intellectual property, Students, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission

Fair access to university depends on much more than making students ‘job-ready’

Sally Patfield, University of Newcastle

Shutterstock Today is World Access to Higher Education Day, but Australia is still a long way off fair access for students from […]

Equity and social justice, International issues, Research and innovation, Universities and the academic mission

Hit hard by the pandemic, Australian researchers expect its impacts to linger for years

Sora Park, University of Canberra; Jennie Scarvell, University of Canberra, and Linda Botterill, University of Canberra

Shutterstock The impacts of COVID-19 on Australian university researchers are likely to have consequences for research productivity and quality for many years […]

Equity and social justice, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: Universities and schools must acknowledge how colonial education has reproduced anti-Indigenous racism

Lisa Howell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Kiera Brant-Birioukov, York University, Canada, and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Protesters march to Parliament Hill in Ottawa in response to the discovery of unmarked Indigenous graves at residential schools on July 1, […]

Equity and social justice, Teaching and learning, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization, Universities and the academic mission

In times of racial injustice, university education should not be ‘neutral’

Jennifer S Simpson, Ryerson University; Sulaimon Giwa, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Verna St Denis, University of Saskatchewan

While Canadian universities are paying more attention to anti-racism and equity, more must be done to incorporate those values into the education […]

Equity and social justice, Universities and the academic mission

4 ways white people can be accountable for addressing anti-Black racism at universities

Karine Coen-Sanchez, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

White folk aren’t ‘beyond race.’ Interrogating Black people’s pain at forums supposedly dedicated to undoing racism is part of the problem. (Shutterstock) […]