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UNE reappoint Barber for another five years

In announcing a second five-year term for the University of New England vice-chancellor, Professor Jim Barber, the chancellor praised his strategy to invest in online education. The chancellor, Richard Torbay, will step down from his position in April to concentrate on ...

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Lawyers lead UWS award negotiations

The National Tertiary Education Union is “surprised” that the University of Western Sydney is appointing lawyers to lead discussions for a new enterprise bargaining deal. Janet Falloon, NTEU (UWS) president said although universities have the right to appoint lawyers to ...

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Lawyers lead UWS award negotiations

The National Tertiary Education Union is “surprised” that the University of Western Sydney is appointing lawyers to lead discussions for a new enterprise bargaining deal. Janet Falloon, NTEU (UWS) president said although universities have the right to appoint lawyers to ...

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Praise for departing Minister Evans

Peak university bodies have praised Senator Chris Evans for “strengthening” the tertiary education sector following the announcement of his resignation as federal minister and decision not to contest the next election. Universities Australia, the leading body for Australian universities, thanked ...

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Tuckwells praised for scholarship $50m donation

Successful Australian businessman Graham Tuckwell and his wife Louise have given a generous slice of their fortune to the Australian National University to support the education of students in one of the largest donations ever made to an Australian university. ...

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Social media shows privacy argument ‘fails’

Talk of privacy in a time of flourishing social media and technological advances is irrelevant, argues Professor Mirko Bagaric, Deakin University’s law school head, in a book of essays launched in Canberra. “I suggest that based on that analysis there ...

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Extreme rainfall, floods due to warming: study

Using more than 8000 weather stations around the world and data going back to 1900, researchers have found a link between global warming and an increase in extreme rainfall. By Aileen Macalintal. Lead author Dr Seth Westra said rainfall extremes ...

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Flexibility key to survival

For public providers to compete with private operators they will have to adopt new teaching methods and embrace online tools In addition, the traditional champions of VET (industry organisations and local enterprises) seem to have gone remarkably quiet. I think ...

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Luring workers away from the coast

The training for people who work in remote areas needs to focus on lifestyle issues as well as skills. When I was developing a research proposal in 2011 focusing on skill shortages, I phoned a research colleague in Melbourne, who ...

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Female students drawn to UNSW engineering

Men still dominate in the field of engineering, with women making up only 15.8 per cent of enrolments in engineering courses at Australian universities in 2010, says the latest Engineers Australia report. However, there are signs that more women are ...

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