Day: December 5, 2011
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Employment of VET graduates lower than in 2008
While vocational education and training (VET) graduates are finding work after they finish their training, employment has not returned to…
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Cautious response to funding changes
Reactions have been mixed to the announcement that reward funding would be restructured and a discount on HECS fees for…
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VU joins Sydney in announcing job cuts
Victoria University is the latest institution to confirm job cuts, with administrative positions to be reduced over the next three…
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Govt and uni recruiters swayed by age
Older postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences are being overlooked for government and academic jobs because of their…
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End of the line – ‘I’m an incoholic’
Former dean of arts at a regional NSW university Professor Sandy Thomas is for the first time attending Incoholics Anonymous…
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ALT Fellows respond to Johns report
The newly formed group Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows (ALTF) has submitted a formal response to the Higher Education Learning…
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Monash nursing workforce survey paints bleak picture
The nursing workforce is facing a staff turnover crisis with 15 per cent of nurses saying they will leave the…
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Research into growth of teaching nursing homes
Just as a round of government funding gets underway, new research looks at the growth of teaching nursing homes in…
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Embedding ethics in practice
While nurses and healthcare professionals frequently top the list of the most trusted professions, it is critical for universities to…
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Inquiry call to help house students
A NSW parliamentary inquiry has backed calls for transport concessions for all international students, noting that this will help them…
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American privates on parade
We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s…
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The NZ push for results continues
The re-election of the Nationals in New Zealand means some in the education system will have to get used to…
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Humanities miss out in CRC grants
The hard sciences have once again been the big beneficiaries from the latest round of new funding for Australian Co-operative…
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OER university gains momentum
The Open Education Resources Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) is an international innovation partnership of like-minded institutions, collaborating on the implementation…
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‘Txting’ is bad for literacy levels, sez who?
Evidence suggesting texting is damaging to children’s literacy levels is inconclusive say education students Daniel Milne and Niki Preston. The…
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