Female students drawn to UNSW engineering
By Campus Review | 18th February, 2013 | Faculty Focus, News, | 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 More..
By Campus Review | 18th February, 2013 | Faculty Focus, News, | 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 More..
Schoolgirls get hands-on experience
By Campus Review | 11th February, 2013 | Faculty Focus, | You have to break things to find out how they are built, the manager of safer roads performance at Transport NSW, Delilah Marta, told a group of teenagers at the annual Women in Engineering Summit at the University of Wollongong. More..
By Campus Review | 11th February, 2013 | Faculty Focus, | You have to break things to find out how they are built, the manager of safer roads performance at Transport NSW, Delilah Marta, told a group of teenagers at the annual Women in Engineering Summit at the University of Wollongong. More..
If the hard hat fits
By Campus Review | 11th February, 2013 | Faculty Focus, Top Stories, |
Forget the stereotypes. Women are an increasing force in the university engineering ranks across Australia. They are still outnumbered almost 10 to one by their male counterparts but the winds of change are blowing. “There is an increasing recognition that More..
By Campus Review | 11th February, 2013 | Faculty Focus, Top Stories, |
Forget the stereotypes. Women are an increasing force in the university engineering ranks across Australia. They are still outnumbered almost 10 to one by their male counterparts but the winds of change are blowing. “There is an increasing recognition that More..
Donning the business hat
By Louis White | 4th February, 2013 | Management, Sections, Top Stories, |
Universities are billion-dollar enterprises today, so the leaders need training in financial practice or an understanding of it. Phil Dolan may just be the role model for the academic of the future. The professor, who is dean of the More..
By Louis White | 4th February, 2013 | Management, Sections, Top Stories, |
Universities are billion-dollar enterprises today, so the leaders need training in financial practice or an understanding of it. Phil Dolan may just be the role model for the academic of the future. The professor, who is dean of the More..
MEME
By Adam Smith | 10th December, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | The term meme, or more particularly internet meme, has become a buzzword to describe any concept or idea that spreads very quickly via the internet or social media. Examples of these can range from a catchy phrase, to a video, More..
By Adam Smith | 10th December, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | The term meme, or more particularly internet meme, has become a buzzword to describe any concept or idea that spreads very quickly via the internet or social media. Examples of these can range from a catchy phrase, to a video, More..
Overseas ventures a success
By Ed Byrne
| 26th November, 2012 | VC's corner, |
Monash has built on its strong international student base to develop a more networked university of the Asia Pacific. Although it has become almost routine to say so, we are living in a time of transformational change. We are still More..
By Ed Byrne
| 26th November, 2012 | VC's corner, |
Monash has built on its strong international student base to develop a more networked university of the Asia Pacific. Although it has become almost routine to say so, we are living in a time of transformational change. We are still More..
THE LAST HUMMER
By Emeritus Professor Pam Peters | 26th November, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | The vehicle that looks like a railway carriage on wheels charging down the highway is a reminder of the rapid evolution of vehicle design priorities. The last Hummer rolled off the production line in 2010, its fate sealed by being More..
By Emeritus Professor Pam Peters | 26th November, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | The vehicle that looks like a railway carriage on wheels charging down the highway is a reminder of the rapid evolution of vehicle design priorities. The last Hummer rolled off the production line in 2010, its fate sealed by being More..
The physical campus will endure
By Jeanette Hacket | 12th November, 2012 | VC's corner, |
Universities must adapt to an ever-changing education landscape, but their basic appeal – good teaching in a rich environment – will remain. As the recent Ernst & Young report University of the Future has reminded us, all organisations are subject More..
By Jeanette Hacket | 12th November, 2012 | VC's corner, |
Universities must adapt to an ever-changing education landscape, but their basic appeal – good teaching in a rich environment – will remain. As the recent Ernst & Young report University of the Future has reminded us, all organisations are subject More..
Romnesia
By Adam Smith | 12th November, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | In a speech in Virginia on October 19, Barack Obama riffed on the term Romnesia to accuse his Republican opponent of forgetfulness over previous policy statements. He wasn’t the first to use the word. The American news organisation motherjones.com carried More..
By Adam Smith | 12th November, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | In a speech in Virginia on October 19, Barack Obama riffed on the term Romnesia to accuse his Republican opponent of forgetfulness over previous policy statements. He wasn’t the first to use the word. The American news organisation motherjones.com carried More..
INDEFFED
By Emeritus Professor Pam Peters | 29th October, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | Indefinite appointments give unlimited tenure to academics, which must be one of the few positive uses of the adjective. The cut-down form – indeff, turned into the verb indeffed – carries the weight of a life-sentence for those whose editorial More..
By Emeritus Professor Pam Peters | 29th October, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | Indefinite appointments give unlimited tenure to academics, which must be one of the few positive uses of the adjective. The cut-down form – indeff, turned into the verb indeffed – carries the weight of a life-sentence for those whose editorial More..
What students want
By Sandra Harding | 29th October, 2012 | VC's corner, |
The feedback from various groups is illuminating, and humbling, students want opportunity and good amenities but mostly they want to engage with academics. In 2000, Mel Gibson starred in the movie What Women Want. Playing Chicago advertising executive and chauvinist More..
By Sandra Harding | 29th October, 2012 | VC's corner, |
The feedback from various groups is illuminating, and humbling, students want opportunity and good amenities but mostly they want to engage with academics. In 2000, Mel Gibson starred in the movie What Women Want. Playing Chicago advertising executive and chauvinist More..
SKEUOMORPH
By Adam Smith | 15th October, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | When I referred to the trash or recycle bin on our desktops in a Strictly Speaking last month (18/9), I didn’t know that this is what’s known as a skeuomorph (from the Greek skeuos “vessel, implement” + morphe “form”). The More..
By Adam Smith | 15th October, 2012 | Strictly speaking, | When I referred to the trash or recycle bin on our desktops in a Strictly Speaking last month (18/9), I didn’t know that this is what’s known as a skeuomorph (from the Greek skeuos “vessel, implement” + morphe “form”). The More..
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