By Geoff Maslen. The world’s top universities attract more students – and reject more student applications – than their lesser counterparts in almost every country across the globe. But Australian evidence suggests the pay-off in money terms is not as great as the students who gain access expect. More...04 juin 2018
Elite university degree no guarantee of higher salary
By Geoff Maslen. The world’s top universities attract more students – and reject more student applications – than their lesser counterparts in almost every country across the globe. But Australian evidence suggests the pay-off in money terms is not as great as the students who gain access expect. More...27 mai 2018
Oxford, elitism and how to really tackle diversity
Readers respond to a report that showed one in four Oxford colleges failed to admit a single black British student each year between 2015 and 2017. More...
21 mai 2018
Does it pay to graduate from an ‘elite’ university? Not as much as you’d think
As the deadline for applications for mid-year admission to university approaches, prospective students face two important choices: what to study, and at which university. More...
09 mai 2018
Toptal launches practice to service the education and edtech markets with its elite talent network
Toptal, a global network of top engineers, designers, and finance experts that empowers companies to accelerate, adapt, and scale, is helping to shape the future of education. More...
27 février 2018
As a working-class student, I know degree pricing would entrench elitism
The education secretary’s announcement on Monday that the Conservative government wants to offer less “economically valuable” university subjects at cheaper prices will serve only to further entrench elitism in education. More...
28 janvier 2018
Why admissions at elite colleges aren’t really about merit
More than 500,000 students who are in the top half of their high school class never get a college degree or complete a certificate program, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. Those 500,000 students also represent about one-third of students who scored 1000 or higher on the SAT, another way of defining top-performing students, it found. More...
26 novembre 2017
Yes, we must decolonise: our teaching has to go beyond elite white men
There’s no need for outrage over changes to Cambridge University’s English curriculum. Issues of race, class and gender are all relevant in literature. More...
15 novembre 2017
Elite universities invest endowments via tax havens
By Brendan O’Malley. Elite universities in the United States and the United Kingdom have been investing endowment funds offshore in order to pay little or no tax, according to details revealed in the so-called Paradise Papers, a series of leaked documents from Appleby, a legal firm based in Bermuda. More...07 novembre 2017
Minister aims to refocus elite universities programme
By Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, is proposing to drastically cut the number of participants in the state’s ‘Project 5-100’ aimed at developing world-class universities – in order to improve its chances of achieving its objectives by 2020. More...Threat to cull elite Project 5-100 universities blocked
By Brendan O’Malley and Eugene Vorotnikov. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Olga Golodets, has ruled out any imminent adoption of a proposal by the Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, to remove funding from 15 out of 21 institutions in the Project 5-100 elite universities programme to concentrate on six institutions. More...
