The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Australian Catholic University (ACU) are the first Australian recipients of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, an award that prizes institutional-level commitment to community. The historically American award was trialled in Australia in ...
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Unions NSW has recommended each state and territory reconsider work and travel restrictions on international students to ease cost of living pressures as fears about the possible overseas student tax looms. The union said overseas students are being disproportionately affected ...
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Western Sydney University (WSU) will open the doors to it's first overseas campus in September next year, focusing on delivering degrees 'for employers' in the STEM and business fields. The Surabaya campus is in Pakuwon Tower, located in central Surabaya, and is ...
More »A tax on international student fees is now a near certainty
Australia’s international education industry is preparing itself for the inevitable – a tax on international students that could raise as much as $1bn annually to help pay for the expansion of the university system that is a key priority of ...
More »Social work students struggle with 1,000 hours unpaid placement
Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi held a Senate roundtable earlier this month to call for an end to unpaid student work placements, which one study found can contribute to increased dropout rates and student poverty. A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Zero wasted potential in a war for talent
CampusReview · HEDx Podcast: Zero wasted potential in a war for talent - Episode 97 The ongoing battle of skills shortages and the war for talent has created an environment requiring greater workforce intelligence. It is an environment where workforce ...
More »‘Making sense of the land by looking at the sky:’ Indigenous students at NASA
Six Indigenous students from Monash University's National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) are completing a 10-week internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Any First Nation student completing a science, technology, engineering or maths degree (STEM) in an Australian ...
More »NSW man in custody after TAFE lockdown
A 45-year-old NSW man was taken into custody by officers from the Tactical Operations Unit on Thursday after a siege along the Bruxner Highway in Wollongbar. Police allege that Paul William Chesworth – an engineer with a “bomb-making hobby” – ...
More »Game-changing plan to tackle campus-based sexual violence
Sexual violence has been a persistent problem in Australian universities and residential colleges for decades. The 2021 National Student Safety Survey (NSSS) commissioned by peak body Universities Australia (UA) found that since starting their studies, one in 20 students had ...
More »Labor’s centralised higher education system poses risks, says Andrew Norton
Labor’s higher education reforms risk producing a technocratic system that will mire universities in bureaucracy and produce graduates who do not match Australia’s economic needs, according to researcher Andrew Norton. In a new paper Professor Norton argues that a new ...
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