A group of Bond University students have donned old school dresses to raise awareness and funds for girls’ education in West Africa. The Do it in a Dress campaign, run by Melbourne charity One Girl, is encouraging men and women ...
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Chubb offers broad plan for supporting entrepreneurship
Australia must seek to emulate countries such as Israel, South Korea, the UK and the US if it is to build an innovation-led economy capable of capitalising on investment in research and skills. A report released this morning by the ...
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Microsoft’s view from the cloud
The future of university administration is in the cloud, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Australia has said. Cloud computing allows users and enterprises to store their data in third-party centres. Microsoft's James Kavanagh said the cloud streamlines the business ...
More »27 years of reviews to reignite reform debate
With deregulation now on the back burner until 2017, Education Minister Simon Birmingham has moved to reset the national debate on the future of higher education by releasing a summary of landmark reviews of sector dating back to 1988. Birmingham ...
More »Acting VC preaches cultural competence
Students and employers want cultural competency – something university leaders are failing to recognise, the acting vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney has said. Cultural competence is the set of behaviours, attitudes and policies that allows professionals to work together ...
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UA adds to calls for more university investment
A report for the sector’s peak body echoes findings that universities are a smart investment. Last week, The Economic Contribution of Australia’s Research Universities – the UNSW example, written by Deloitte Access Economics for the University of New South Wales, argued ...
More »Birmingham, Labor spar over reform at summit
The education minister, Simon Birmingham, has alleged that the opponents of fee deregulation ran a scare campaign. During his address to The Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit this week, Birmingham reinforced that reform is not dead but on the backburner until ...
More »Women, Indigenous youth missing out: report
A quarter of Australians in their mid-20s are not engaged in full-time work, training or study – a report from the Mitchell Institute has shown. Equal opportunity in Australia 2015 examined young people’s progress through four key educational milestones, from ...
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