CDU has launched a new student coaching program aimed at reducing attrition rates for students in education courses. The pilot Student Success Coach Program oversees students undertaking the Bachelor of Education (Primary) and Master of Teaching (Primary) degrees, helping them ...
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Any university student will tell you that the experience comes with both highs and lows, with the pressures of academic study often causing significant levels of anxiety and stress. Well, a new study has found that a simple change in ...
More »Mark my words: research finds uni students prefer digital feedback
Comments scrawled manually? Face-to-face dialogue? Or digital recordings? In a new Monash University study, thousands of Australian university students have voted digital as their preferred feedback mode. The study asked over 4,500 students from two universities to rate the level ...
More »University suspends students over photos of racist costumes
Charles Sturt University students have been suspended over racist photos posted to social media, and have been told they must complete a course on Indigenous culture. Students attending a 'politcally incorrect' end-of-year party dressed up as Klu Klux Klan members, ...
More »Stressed out students voice their gripes
A year ago, a National Union of Students/Headspace survey of 2,600 university students revealed some troubling insights. A majority (66 per cent) reported high psychological distress over the past year, while 70 per cent rated their mental health 'poor' or 'fair'. Now, the sources of their ...
More »The pushback against overseas students
International education is facing an uncertain future. In unprecedented ways, study destination nations around the globe are addressing the community impact of tuition-fee-paying international students. Whether it be Theresa May’s policy of counting all overseas students as migrants, Donald Trump ...
More »World-first Deakin study unmasks university ghostwriters
In a world first study, Deakin University researchers have showed markers can distinguish ghostwritten assignments from genuine ones. Their hit rate for identifying ghostwritten papers, however, was only 62 per cent. Seven academics each blind-marked 20 psychology papers, six of ...
More »Billion dollar babies: the cost of not furthering education
The following does not contain typos: disengaged 24-year-olds cost taxpayers $69 billion over a lifetime. This is one of the major findings of the Mitchell Institute’s new report, Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education. The Institute, based ...
More »California dreaming no more: Curtin students head to Stanford
Supawit Mahaguna, aged 21, was born in Thailand. Now a Bachelor of Commerce (International Business) student at Curtin University, he has stumbled on greater success with, literally, the click of an email. "I received an email about [the opportunity]. At the ...
More »Student fee changes up for debate
They were a suitably contrarian trio. Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sophie Johnston, president of the National Union of Students, and Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, graced the stage at the ...
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