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https://www.europesays.com/africa/232237/ Fewer Nigerian Students Studying Abroad, Minister Claims #Japa #JUPEB #MinistryOfEducation #Nigeria #NigerianStudents #NigerianUniversities #StudentMobility #StudyAbroad #TertiaryEducation #TunjiAlausa

University of Newcastle academic with terminal cancer risks job to speak out about ‘unsafe’ workloads

Associate professor Trisha Pender has terminal cancer but it has not stopped the University of Newcastle intensifying her…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #Education #Governance #inquiry #nsw #professors #teachers #teachingworkload #tertiaryeducation #Universities #UniversityofNewcastle #universitystaff
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/664484/

University of Newcastle academic with terminal cancer risks job to speak out about ‘unsafe’ workloads

Associate professor Trisha Pender has terminal cancer but it has not stopped the University of Newcastle intensifying her…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #Education #Governance #inquiry #nsw #professors #teachers #teachingworkload #tertiaryeducation #Universities #UniversityofNewcastle #universitystaff
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/664484/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/229265/ JAMB UTME exemption for education & agriculture courses #AdmissionPolicy #AgricultureCourses #CollegeAdmission #CollegeOfEducation #EducationCourses #EducationProgrammes #JAMB #JointAdmissionsAndMatriculationBoard #NationalDiploma #NCE #NCEProgrammes #Nigeria #NigerianEducation #NigerianUniversities #polytechnics #TertiaryAdmission #TertiaryEducation #TunjiAlausa #UTME #UTMEExemption

https://www.europesays.com/africa/221428/ SSANU, NASU to suspend nationwide university strike May 11 #EducationSector #FederalGovernment #IndustrialAction #NASU #Nigeria #NigeriaUniversities #NonAcademicStaff #SSANU #TertiaryEducation #UnionDemands #UniversityStrike

https://www.europesays.com/ie/407980/ FG unveils entrepreneurship certification in 14 universities #Business #EIBIC #Éire #Entrepreneurship #FederalGovernment #HigherEducation #IE #innovation #Ireland #JobCreation #MarufAlausa #NigerianUniversities #StudentEntrepreneurs #TertiaryEducation

https://www.europesays.com/uk/855395/ FG unveils entrepreneurship certification in 14 universities #Business #EIBIC #Entrepreneurship #FederalGovernment #HigherEducation #Innovation #JobCreation #MarufAlausa #NigerianUniversities #StudentEntrepreneurs #TertiaryEducation #UK #UnitedKingdom

Warning over screen time and chatbots as number of depressed hits record high

One in three Hong Kong adults have moderate to severe symptoms of depression, almost triple the rate from…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AI #AIchatbots #AngelaCuiJialiang #CA #Canada #ChineseUniversityofHongKong #ChingChi-kong #Covidpandemic #depression #GenerationZ #Health #HongKong #MentalHealthAssociation #MentalHealth #StephenWongMan-shun #suicide #tertiaryeducation
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/517574/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/370450/ Warning over screen time and chatbots as number of depressed hits record high #AI #AIChatbots #AngelaCuiJialiang #ChineseUniversityOfHongKong #ChingChiKong #CovidPandemic #Depression #Éire #GenerationZ #Health #HongKong #IE #Ireland #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAssociation #MentalHealth #StephenWongManShun #suicide #TertiaryEducation

https://www.europesays.com/uk/807194/ Warning over screen time and chatbots as number of depressed hits record high #AI #AIChatbots #AngelaCuiJialiang #ChineseUniversityOfHongKong #ChingChiKong #CovidPandemic #Depression #GenerationZ #Health #HongKong #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAssociation #StephenWongManShun #Suicide #TertiaryEducation #UK #UnitedKingdom

Day 1 of the Universities Australia Solutions Summit! CAUL booth set up and keynote session beginning 🤩

#UASolutionsSummit #HigherEducation #Libraries #TertiaryEducation #FirstNationsKnowledge #Equity #Inclusion #CAUL

Day 1 of the Universities Australia Solutions Summit! CAUL booth set up and keynote session beginning 🤩

#UASolutionsSummit #HigherEducation #Libraries #TertiaryEducation #FirstNationsKnowledge #Equity #Inclusion #CAUL

Day 1 of the Universities Australia Solutions Summit! CAUL booth set up and keynote session beginning 🤩

#UASolutionsSummit #HigherEducation #Libraries #TertiaryEducation #FirstNationsKnowledge #Equity #Inclusion #CAUL

Day 1 of the Universities Australia Solutions Summit! CAUL booth set up and keynote session beginning 🤩

#UASolutionsSummit #HigherEducation #Libraries #TertiaryEducation #FirstNationsKnowledge #Equity #Inclusion #CAUL

Day 1 of the Universities Australia Solutions Summit! CAUL booth set up and keynote session beginning 🤩

#UASolutionsSummit #HigherEducation #Libraries #TertiaryEducation #FirstNationsKnowledge #Equity #Inclusion #CAUL

@ChrisMayLA6
Don’t know about the UK, but previous Australian govt policies (esp. the Job Ready Graduate program) does much to undo the successes of Arts faculties (where languages are taught) with massive cost increases for degrees. The program promotes STEMS subject by radically cutting funding for the Arts and massively increasing funding for STEM subjects esp engineering and medicine. This was a neoliberal policy that has so far not been curtailed by our current Labor govt.

By the by, the policy was/is a total failure. Students seek to study in the field they have an interest in and not the ‘cheapest’ degree structures. The resulting numbers have shown a very modest increase in STEMS and a decrease in non-STEMS enrolments.

Politicians (as well as business persons) should be kept out out of University boards and councils. Ministers ought to worry about education budgets and leave the running of a Universtity to those better educated to do so IMO. It’s academic, not corporate.

#TertiaryEducation

@ChrisMayLA6
Don’t know about the UK, but previous Australian govt policies (esp. the Job Ready Graduate program) does much to undo the successes of Arts faculties (where languages are taught) with massive cost increases for degrees. The program promotes STEMS subject by radically cutting funding for the Arts and massively increasing funding for STEM subjects esp engineering and medicine. This was a neoliberal policy that has so far not been curtailed by our current Labor govt.

By the by, the policy was/is a total failure. Students seek to study in the field they have an interest in and not the ‘cheapest’ degree structures. The resulting numbers have shown a very modest increase in STEMS and a decrease in non-STEMS enrolments.

Politicians (as well as business persons) should be kept out out of University boards and councils. Ministers ought to worry about education budgets and leave the running of a Universtity to those better educated to do so IMO. It’s academic, not corporate.

#TertiaryEducation

@ChrisMayLA6
Don’t know about the UK, but previous Australian govt policies (esp. the Job Ready Graduate program) does much to undo the successes of Arts faculties (where languages are taught) with massive cost increases for degrees. The program promotes STEMS subject by radically cutting funding for the Arts and massively increasing funding for STEM subjects esp engineering and medicine. This was a neoliberal policy that has so far not been curtailed by our current Labor govt.

By the by, the policy was/is a total failure. Students seek to study in the field they have an interest in and not the ‘cheapest’ degree structures. The resulting numbers have shown a very modest increase in STEMS and a decrease in non-STEMS enrolments.

Politicians (as well as business persons) should be kept out out of University boards and councils. Ministers ought to worry about education budgets and leave the running of a Universtity to those better educated to do so IMO. It’s academic, not corporate.

#TertiaryEducation

@ChrisMayLA6
Don’t know about the UK, but previous Australian govt policies (esp. the Job Ready Graduate program) does much to undo the successes of Arts faculties (where languages are taught) with massive cost increases for degrees. The program promotes STEMS subject by radically cutting funding for the Arts and massively increasing funding for STEM subjects esp engineering and medicine. This was a neoliberal policy that has so far not been curtailed by our current Labor govt.

By the by, the policy was/is a total failure. Students seek to study in the field they have an interest in and not the ‘cheapest’ degree structures. The resulting numbers have shown a very modest increase in STEMS and a decrease in non-STEMS enrolments.

Politicians (as well as business persons) should be kept out out of University boards and councils. Ministers ought to worry about education budgets and leave the running of a Universtity to those better educated to do so IMO. It’s academic, not corporate.

#TertiaryEducation

@ChrisMayLA6
Don’t know about the UK, but previous Australian govt policies (esp. the Job Ready Graduate program) does much to undo the successes of Arts faculties (where languages are taught) with massive cost increases for degrees. The program promotes STEMS subject by radically cutting funding for the Arts and massively increasing funding for STEM subjects esp engineering and medicine. This was a neoliberal policy that has so far not been curtailed by our current Labor govt.

By the by, the policy was/is a total failure. Students seek to study in the field they have an interest in and not the ‘cheapest’ degree structures. The resulting numbers have shown a very modest increase in STEMS and a decrease in non-STEMS enrolments.

Politicians (as well as business persons) should be kept out out of University boards and councils. Ministers ought to worry about education budgets and leave the running of a Universtity to those better educated to do so IMO. It’s academic, not corporate.

#TertiaryEducation

"... higher education around the world is facing its own structural problems that limit the sector’s ability to respond to societal issues. ... We identify the major challenges, offer one set of solutions, and call for interest in further discussion about how to transform higher education for the future."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#education #TertiaryEducation #HigherEducation

"... higher education around the world is facing its own structural problems that limit the sector’s ability to respond to societal issues. ... We identify the major challenges, offer one set of solutions, and call for interest in further discussion about how to transform higher education for the future."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#education #TertiaryEducation #HigherEducation

"... higher education around the world is facing its own structural problems that limit the sector’s ability to respond to societal issues. ... We identify the major challenges, offer one set of solutions, and call for interest in further discussion about how to transform higher education for the future."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#education #TertiaryEducation #HigherEducation

"... higher education around the world is facing its own structural problems that limit the sector’s ability to respond to societal issues. ... We identify the major challenges, offer one set of solutions, and call for interest in further discussion about how to transform higher education for the future."

Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/

#education #TertiaryEducation #HigherEducation

$55,000 arts degrees and continued job cuts as universities call for urgent reform to degree pricing

Universities have warned that job cuts leading to thousands of academics and professional staff being sacked are likely…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #artsdegree #AU #fees #hecs #jobreadygraduates #student #tertiaryeducation #university
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/278441/

“Australian musicians are among the team putting pressure on ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop and the ANU Council to abandon their plans to dismantle the School of Music. The team have called on Bishop to halt job cuts, continue its performance and composition majors, and maintain one-on-one music tuition in an open letter.

The open letter was written by the newly formed School of Music Advocacy Roundtable and signed by over 40 high-profile supporters.”

This is a bit of ‘Johnny-come-lately’, esp after the CSO had already made its position very clear on any thought of closing the #ANU #SchoolOfMusic by #JulieBishop ‘s Council Fiefdom. But any additional pressure is most welcomed. Keep it up guys, let’s pile it on.

#Music #Musicians #Conservatorium #TertiaryEducation #AusPol #JasonClareMP #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow

Read more:

https://themusic.com.au/industry/jimmy-barnes-dave-faulkner-genesis-owusu-more-rally-to-save-the-anu-school-of-music/c-PJZ2ZpaGs/17-09-25

TIL: the ANU is awash with #CASH:
“But here is the paradox: while education and staffing were cut, ANU’s financial wealth kept growing. By 2023, the university held over $2B in financial assets and recorded $3.4B in total net assets. It continued to run cash surpluses despite reporting accrual accounting deficits”

AND that the financial crisis making the news and resulting in over 450 staff losses and plans to close some faculties are a direct result of the application of accrual accounting. This is an accounting practice that is necessary to run a business responsible to shareholders — but CANNOT be applied to education institutions which have a different raison d’etre and report to society (via parliaments).

#Managerialism and #NeoClassicEconomics responsible for the #FailedGovernance of ANU is made worse by the #Council’s use of ANU funds in speculative and #RealEstate investments partly funded by borrowings (Debt). These #NeoLiberal Council forays in #Productivism and #Capitalism are NOT core business to Universities. Not only is this the Absolutely Wrong Governance model to run a Uni, but it is currently grossly #Mismanaged and noone is taking responsibility for this, least of all #JulieBishop the #Chancellor of ANU.

Take a break and read the article, it is well written and explains much of what is going on. Furthermore, it provides the reasons why #Bishop should go and a sorely needed change to #Governance processes and responsibilities. If #JasonClaiMP can’t see this he’s a #FailedMinister

Read more:

https://michaelwest.com.au/uni-finances-anu-and-the-commercialisation-of-higher-ed/

#AccrualAccounting #TertiaryEducation #ANU #JulieBishop #Auspol #EducationMinister #SaveOurUniversities #GovernanceReformsNow #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #SaveOurUniversities #SackUniCouncils #CollegiateGovernance

Houshang Pakzad, one of the founders of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, has died.

He was a professor of physics at the University of Tehran but lost his job after the Iranian revolution. To this day, the Iranian government bans all Baha'is from teaching and studying at Iranian universities, depriving the country's largest non-Islamic religious minority of higher education. Pakzad helped to establish an underground university for Baha'is. It started by offering classes from homes despite raids nby the government and imprisonment of teachers.

Degrees from the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education are recognised throughout the Western world.
#Bahai #TertiaryEducation #HumanRights

https://iranpresswatch.org/post/25568/passing-of-houshang-pakzad-professor-of-physics-and-co-founder-of-the-bahai-institute-for-higher-education/

Houshang Pakzad, one of the founders of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, has died.

He was a professor of physics at the University of Tehran but lost his job after the Iranian revolution. To this day, the Iranian government bans all Baha'is from teaching and studying at Iranian universities, depriving the country's largest non-Islamic religious minority of higher education. Pakzad helped to establish an underground university for Baha'is. It started by offering classes from homes despite raids nby the government and imprisonment of teachers.

Degrees from the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education are recognised throughout the Western world.
#Bahai #TertiaryEducation #HumanRights

https://iranpresswatch.org/post/25568/passing-of-houshang-pakzad-professor-of-physics-and-co-founder-of-the-bahai-institute-for-higher-education/

Houshang Pakzad, one of the founders of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, has died.

He was a professor of physics at the University of Tehran but lost his job after the Iranian revolution. To this day, the Iranian government bans all Baha'is from teaching and studying at Iranian universities, depriving the country's largest non-Islamic religious minority of higher education. Pakzad helped to establish an underground university for Baha'is. It started by offering classes from homes despite raids nby the government and imprisonment of teachers.

Degrees from the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education are recognised throughout the Western world.
#Bahai #TertiaryEducation #HumanRights

https://iranpresswatch.org/post/25568/passing-of-houshang-pakzad-professor-of-physics-and-co-founder-of-the-bahai-institute-for-higher-education/

Houshang Pakzad, one of the founders of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, has died.

He was a professor of physics at the University of Tehran but lost his job after the Iranian revolution. To this day, the Iranian government bans all Baha'is from teaching and studying at Iranian universities, depriving the country's largest non-Islamic religious minority of higher education. Pakzad helped to establish an underground university for Baha'is. It started by offering classes from homes despite raids nby the government and imprisonment of teachers.

Degrees from the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education are recognised throughout the Western world.
#Bahai #TertiaryEducation #HumanRights

https://iranpresswatch.org/post/25568/passing-of-houshang-pakzad-professor-of-physics-and-co-founder-of-the-bahai-institute-for-higher-education/

Houshang Pakzad, one of the founders of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education, has died.

He was a professor of physics at the University of Tehran but lost his job after the Iranian revolution. To this day, the Iranian government bans all Baha'is from teaching and studying at Iranian universities, depriving the country's largest non-Islamic religious minority of higher education. Pakzad helped to establish an underground university for Baha'is. It started by offering classes from homes despite raids nby the government and imprisonment of teachers.

Degrees from the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education are recognised throughout the Western world.
#Bahai #TertiaryEducation #HumanRights

https://iranpresswatch.org/post/25568/passing-of-houshang-pakzad-professor-of-physics-and-co-founder-of-the-bahai-institute-for-higher-education/

The real question to ask is: How did the #TertiaryEducation sector even get into this horrible mess? In thruth there can only be one answer… mismanagement. No matter Govt intervention and changes, it was up to #Management to see their institution through. Clearly they were incapable of managing it.

The result of course will not be the chastising of those management teams. The costs of their inadequacies will be paid in full by staff and students alike. And Australia will be the poorer for it.

Clearly, #corporate style management does not work in the #education system. Just as #privatisation of State assets has been show to be ruinous and fatal to the quality of services, so has the neoliberal bet on the #dorporatisation of the sector spell dire consequences for our #universities.

Shame on all of them, politicians, chancelors, vice and the bean counters they need for their hit-jobs. Damn them all.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/24/australian-university-course-cuts-jobs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo

The educational wealth divide ...

just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo

The educational wealth divide ...

just published (with a super team A Pietrolucci, @nrmllr.bsky.social, @jaschadraeger.bsky.social ) Association btw != wealth components & post-secondary enrollment (a comparison across many European countries) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #rc28 #inequality #wealth #TertiaryEducation #ieo

The educational wealth divide ...

“In the lead-up to the 2022 election, Labor promised a review of the scheme. Two years and two federal elections later, it remains in place. “The idea that a Labor government would do nothing at all to right this wrong is utterly mystifying,” said Winton. (Source: The Conversation)

This is about the clusterfuck called #JobReadyGraduates and the immense damage the #Morrison from marketing govt caused to our #TertiaryEducation system and the irresponsibilty our current #Labor govt is showing with the length of time it is taking to repeal that policy. Sure, it’s complex legislation (meant to be by #LNP to ensure its legacy is felt for many years).

This is only one issue, though an important one, which has to be dealt with. Another is the lack of funding resulting from the flawed #Corporatisation and #Managerialisation of Universities.

#AlboPM better get a move on or face growing anger at his inaction. We cannot allow the #UniversitiesAccord report to gather dust. The 20% reduction (only one way to look at the reduction, because there are lower estimates) was an electoral carrot. It worked, apparently, but now we need to see how clear-sighted #JasonClare really is.

Read more:

https://theconversation.com/top-australian-writers-urge-albanese-to-abolish-job-ready-graduates-calling-their-humanities-degrees-life-changing-261743

https://www.europesays.com/uk/233000/ N50m Student Grant Boosts Nigerian Innovation #Abuja #BankOfIndia #Business #EducationFunding #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #NigerianStudents #StudentGrant #TertiaryEducation #TETFund #UK #UnitedKingdom #VentureCapital

John Quiggin, quoted by the Australian Institute, makes plain what every Education Portfolio politician knows but does nothing to reverse the perverse trends in #TertiaryEducation :
“Australian universities are overseen by Vice-Chancellors who are paid vast sums of money, yet they are presiding over a sector which is failing staff, students and the broader community.

Australian uni students are paying more than ever for degrees while staff-to-student ratios are soaring.”

George Williams AO, vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University (in Crickey News) makes a valid point to prod our Labor govt to undertake an immigration policy overhaul while keeping the important matters to the fore. Less political football and more thoughtful consideration of the underlying issues involved. Arguing that to focus on International students is not an effective or appropriate lever to pull. But of course, taking a step back from the proposed Bill might actually lead to real progressive policies - we can't have the now, can we?

"The legislative changes were never just about universities; their ramifications extended to the economic and social wellbeing of our communities and to the signal Australia sends the world as an outward-facing, inclusive nation.

The government’s formula for determining the international student caps was always flawed, rushed and blunt."

Read more:
https://crikey.us22.list-manage.com/track/click?

#Immigration #Labor #TertiaryEducation #InternationalStudentCaps #D107

George Williams AO, vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University (in Crickey News) makes a valid point to prod our Labor govt to undertake an immigration policy overhaul while keeping the important matters to the fore. Less political football and more thoughtful consideration of the underlying issues involved. Arguing that to focus on International students is not an effective or appropriate lever to pull. But of course, taking a step back from the proposed Bill might actually lead to real progressive policies - we can't have the now, can we?

"The legislative changes were never just about universities; their ramifications extended to the economic and social wellbeing of our communities and to the signal Australia sends the world as an outward-facing, inclusive nation.

The government’s formula for determining the international student caps was always flawed, rushed and blunt."

Read more:
https://crikey.us22.list-manage.com/track/click?

#Immigration #Labor #TertiaryEducation #InternationalStudentCaps #D107

@cheryanne
Now? All of a sudden? How is that not an ‘upper management failure’? I’ll bet that if you follow the money, you’ll get to some high level bean counting or an investment gone wrong issue. But of course (as in Parliament and the banking system) it’s always the fault of someone else down the line of responsibility or the academic staff suffers the consequences as always. #InUnity #ANUFinancialFiasco #ANU

Tertiary Institutions should get back to core business (not business) and Govt ought to be progressive and fund them adequately in the first instance.

#FundEducation #auspol #Education #tertiaryeducation

@cheryanne
Now? All of a sudden? How is that not an ‘upper management failure’? I’ll bet that if you follow the money, you’ll get to some high level bean counting or an investment gone wrong issue. But of course (as in Parliament and the banking system) it’s always the fault of someone else down the line of responsibility or the academic staff suffers the consequences as always. #InUnity #ANUFinancialFiasco #ANU

Tertiary Institutions should get back to core business (not business) and Govt ought to be progressive and fund them adequately in the first instance.

#FundEducation #auspol #Education #tertiaryeducation

@cheryanne
Now? All of a sudden? How is that not an ‘upper management failure’? I’ll bet that if you follow the money, you’ll get to some high level bean counting or an investment gone wrong issue. But of course (as in Parliament and the banking system) it’s always the fault of someone else down the line of responsibility or the academic staff suffers the consequences as always. #InUnity #ANUFinancialFiasco #ANU

Tertiary Institutions should get back to core business (not business) and Govt ought to be progressive and fund them adequately in the first instance.

#FundEducation #auspol #Education #tertiaryeducation

Meeting: Oppose Australian Labor government’s cuts to international students and tertiary education jobs - World Socialist Web Site

#TertiaryEducation #EducationJobs #Teaching

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/28/xqzv-a28.html