…lack of social networks, and inability to use campus space and amenities were other factors that undermined their overall educational experience. Financial stress Media reports have highlighted the financial precarity…
READ MORE…level, students are eligible for a comprehensive financial support package—composed primarily of loans—which covers both the cost of tuition and living costs. At the postgraduate level, there is no government-backed…
READ MORE…five separate arguments about the superiority of a free-tuition arrangement over a tuition plus-grant arrangement. Two of these are scarcely credible. The first is the idea that free tuition is…
READ MORE…share. While I agree that tenure is presently the vehicle that allows the practice of academic freedom, I believe that such practice nonetheless depends on job security, not tenure, and…
READ MORE…types, the top and bottom halves did not differ significantly in average rank on 31 (78%) of the 40 individual comparisons. For most comparisons, higher-ranking universities were therefore little or…
READ MORE…tacit assumptions: that lectures make for bad teaching and that using technology improves it. But are these reliable assumptions? Rather than simply rejecting lectures and embracing technology, perhaps we should…
READ MOREEarly this March, on a Friday—Friday the 13th, as it happened—a journalist named Margaret Munro uploaded a 23-page PDF to the document-sharing website Scribd.com. The file detailed certain new policies…
READ MORE…underemployment and suffused with an atmosphere of brutal competition” (p. 25). This competition left PhDs and faculty with the sense that they were part of a highly competitive but functional…
READ MORE…of the government’s review of undergraduate education in England, the Browne Review, which led to the introduction of a £9,000 (about $18,000 CAD) per year fee cap, the creation of…
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