More than 100,000 students and staff at Monash University will have access to free mental health and wellbeing support through a new smartphone app. The Thrive smartphone app was rolled out to the Monash community – providing mental health support ...
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Let’s consider what students want from EdTech
The Australian Universities Accord process gained widespread engagement and attention from higher education providers, leaders and interest groups across the system. As a means of developing an Accord across the sector’s providers with the government, it has been a big ...
More »Over 214,000 students enrol in Fee-Free TAFE
Enrolments in the government-backed Fee-Free TAFE initiative exceeded 214,000 in the first six months, nearly 35,000 more than anticipated. The federal government announced a 12-month skills agreement providing $550.1m in 2023, including $493.3m for fee-free TAFE places, which state and ...
More »Uni led consent education program given $1.1m
The Department of Justice has awarded over $10m in grants to non-profit organisations, supporting early intervention and response projects that address sexual violence. The DOJ announced 14 successful recipients of the NSW Sexual Violence Project Fund on 19 July. Among ...
More »Australian Universities Accord panel considers caps on international student numbers
Caps on international student numbers are being canvassed as part of the milestone Australian Universities Accord, as Accord panel chairwoman Mary O’Kane reveals the opportunity to teach more overseas students offshore is “definitely on the table”. Announced last year by ...
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POSITION DETAILS Position title: Professor/Associate Professor or Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy Faculty: Faculty of Health Executive portfolio: Vice Chancellor Responsible to: Chair of Discipline, Human Sciences Level: Academic Level E, D or C ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT Southern Cross University is powered ...
More »Funding boost for national defence research
Nine Australian universities have been awarded government research grants to develop technologies aimed at addressing national security threats. Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney were among the successful round two recipients of the National ...
More »Five pitfalls of adopting the block mode of teaching, and strategies to overcome them: opinion
Block Mode of Teaching (BMT) is a model of teaching where subjects are offered in shorter periods of time. In the traditional semester mode of teaching, four units are normally offered in a 12 week window. In the BMT usually ...
More »How effective SaaS integration enhances employee engagement
Remote working situations, team restructures, shifting responsibilities, and an undercurrent of uncertainty has changed work as we know it. As a result, our peoples’ needs, preferences and expectations have shifted. Employee engagement remains an ongoing challenge for leaders around the ...
More »Our amazing brain plasticity and the importance of social connectedness, part 2 – Opinion
[Click here to read part 1] Neurogenesis For centuries it was believed that the brain was unable to regenerate. But neuroscientific evidence since the 1990s in particular has demonstrated that to be wrong. Further to and adding to this, Sandra ...
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