International Cambodia’s failing education system | Even though higher education remains far beyond the reach of most rural and female youth, the gross enrolment rate in tertiary education among youths aged between 18 and 22 has improved significantly over the last 10 years from 4.9 to 20 percent, including amongContinue Reading
International Marketisation could undermine higher education innovation | The ‘business model’ of university governance, the product of what one might call the English experiment in higher education policy-making, because it does not apply or certainly applies with much less force in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, seems in danger ofContinue Reading
International Here’s why millennials have to fight harder than their parents did to stay in the middle class | Today, just 60% of millennials (those born between 1983 and 2002) are considered middle-class, compared to 70% of baby boomers (those born between 1943 and 1964) when they were in theirContinue Reading
International An intersectional approach to the future of learning | In sociology, the term ‘intersectionality’ asks us to consider the overlapping nature of multiple identities and how those identities interlock to make systems of power. Higher education must go beyond the frame of 18- to 22-year-olds to consider a lifetimeContinue Reading
International Maximising the civic mission of universities in Wales | According to a 2018 survey by the Civic University Commission, 58% of respondents said they were “proud” of their universities. However, 35% were unable to name a single thing their local university had done to engage the local community andContinue Reading
