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The term epistocracy* surfaced some years ago in philosophical discussions about the nature of democracy, starting with Estlund’s Democratic Authority (2008). It taps an ancient issue in the debate as to who should be allowed to participate in electing a ...

Australia is again home to more top young universities than any other study destination. That’s according to the 2021 edition of the Top 50 Under 50 Rankings, put together by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Once again, nine ...

School leavers who are hoping to study humanities will either have to foot a bill double that of their predecessors or pick different subjects under a new scheme announced by Education Minister Dan Tehan. Under the plan, the government will ...

It’s low-cost and widely available and yet dexamethasone is the drug that has researchers' tongues wagging after a UK trial showed it reduced deaths among COVID-19 patients. In trial results that scientists called a “major breakthrough”, a low dose of ...

Charles Sturt University will slash around 13 per cent of its current slate of subjects, bringing its 2019 offering of 4751 subjects down by 600. The news came on the back of a projected 2020 budget deficit for the university ...

The rigour vs relevance debate has raged in business schools since their inception. In the early days, most professors were retired or were very experienced executives whose role was to narrate war stories to students. Students found their education highly ...

Grok Learning is an online platform for university-level teaching of programming-related subjects. It’s also used in many Australian schools to teach the new Digital Technologies curriculum. At Grok we work closely with our university partners to support their innovative teaching ...

Options to address the massive COVID-19 related hits to university revenue are being considered and implemented. Many universities had large capital projects underway and infrastructure plans in development when the virus hit. One option for budget management that has appeared ...

A series of government reviews over the past year highlights why it’s no longer appropriate to look at tertiary education as a binary choice for students, presented as a choice between undertaking study in the higher education sector or the ...

News broke this week that China issued a warning to citizens intending to travel to Australia to “exercise caution” and conduct a “good risk assessment” due to racism against people of Asian descent, but Australian pundits have rejected the claims. ...