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OdunEweniyi
Public universities in Nigeria are heavily subsidised by the Nigerian government. An undergraduate economics course costs just ₦55,000 annually in a typical public university, compared to ₦937,500 in some private
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Aaron “Loose Legs” Ansuini 🪴🌱✨
AaronLinguini
I know a lot of educators are offended by takes like these because they’re working hard—but I’d like to encourage folk to really consider how this situation is highlighting gatekeeing
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George Gathìgì
SpryVoice
There are few assumptions that I have found 'interesting' especially in KE HigherEd's attempt to implement online instruction. 1. In 2020, most KE universities have never fully gone online. While
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Ted McCormick
mccormick_ted
At Concordia the Women's/Gender Studies program has 8 faculty members, out of 1089 full-time faculty and librarians and 1330 part-time faculty. There's no postcolonial program; 5 courses across the university
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Caroline Holland against reopening!
caromholland
maybe i'm missing something but i really don't see how campuses could safely reopen before there's a vaccine and i worry that as long as universities operate under the fantasy
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Kristin Pitt
PittKristin
Who else is watching all these reports of college athletics programs with frightening #Covid19 test results and wondering what on earth these same universities are thinking is going to happen
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Kresge Education
kresgedu
THREAD: We're glad to see @Stanford & @Harvard decided not to accept CARES Act funds. It’s the right thing to do and something all well-resourced institutions, as defined by federal
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servenitup
RuthServenSmith
JMU had 143 quarantine beds. UNC had 73. UVA, after wrestling late into the night with the decision to reopen, is betting 1,500 beds that it can reopen this fall.https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/uva-scrambles-to-create-1500-quarantin
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Susanna L Harris
SusannaLHarris
If you want to know why I'm so bent out of shape about universities reopening:Grad students' health and rights are almost always left out of guidelines, leaving more room for
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Andrew Forbes
Lord_Forbington
I tweeted a lot earlier out of fear for a student’s well being, but I’d like to now return to one point i made. Specifically, I’d like to ask: why
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Abubakar Hidima Ph.D.
Realoilsheikh
Kudos to these Northern Universities. Some may not be able to speak the Queen's English, but this is a short thread of students & Lecturers from Northern Universities pioneering the
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Jacob T. Levy
jtlevy
The widespread demands on universities include:Don't charge full tuition for online-only teachingDon't cut faculty salaries or furlough facultyDon't cut staff salaries or lay off staffExtend graduate student funding by a
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Rochelle Kopp
JapanIntercult
*THREAD*Right now at Japanese universities, the big debate is whether to take classes online. Some related resources:First, this doc lists 44 Japanese universities that have decided to go online -
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John Morgan
johncmorgan3
Here are the details on the DfE's "restructuring regime" for universities needing emergency financial support - in the form of a "repayable loan" with many conditions attached. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u
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Josh Milthorpe
JoshMilthorpe
Either through stupidity or spite, the Liberal/National Government's inaction during #COVID-19 will devastate universities. Higher ed drives innovation & growth and will underpin our economic recovery in a changing post-COVID
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Noah Smith 🐇
Noahpinion
I don't think people realize yet how badly U.S. public universities are going to get clobbered, or how long-lasting the damage will be. I have a post about it coming
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