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More »Exclusive: higher ed leaders reflect on 2017
In 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States, and not long after, the Mueller investigation began. #MeToo swept the internet and, thereby, workforces, and North Korea scared just about everyone. Domestically, politicians suddenly discovered their foreign ...
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International education is facing an uncertain future. In unprecedented ways, study destination nations around the globe are addressing the community impact of tuition-fee-paying international students. Whether it be Theresa May’s policy of counting all overseas students as migrants, Donald Trump ...
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The way university research is measured and rewarded needs to change. Helen Razer has called these times an Age of False Enlightenment, in which our leaders regularly make claims to know what they do not know. We might dub it ...
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