Monthly Archives: August 2015
Get your MOOC’s worth
Universities have much to gain from adopting modern online education but to reap the benefits for themselves and their students, they’re going to have to do it right. By Adam Brimo Most of the world outside of academia has ...
More »The gender equity lab
Researchers have again found insidious sexism in science careers; a new program will test whether linking change to funding has a positive effect. By James Wells A draft report into the scientific community reveals gender inequality is entrenched in Australian ...
More »Study Group modernises learning with new Melbourne facility
Study Group has opened the doors to its newest Melbourne facility developed in response to the rapidly increasing demand for high quality education. Based in the heart of Melbourne’s CDB, the Study Group campus offers natural medicine, massage, beauty and ...
More »Senate condemns Pyne’s latest deregulation push
The Senate has officially labelled the education minister, Christopher Pyne's, ongoing efforts to pursue the government’s university deregulation plans as a “significant waste of public resources”. A Greens-led motion the upper house passed yesterday noted the recent news that the government had ...
More »Today’s news in 60 seconds
Strictly speaking | BOOKANEER
Bookaneer looks like a modern coinage – a word invented to make reading more attractive to small children by associating it with pirates. Indeed, an episode of the popular TV show for young learners, Sesame Street, has Elmo joining the ...
More »Curtin Public Health School picks chief
Professor Rachel Huxley has been appointed Curtin University’s new head of the School of Public Health. Huxley joins Curtin after her appointment as chair of epidemiology at the University of Queensland. Professor Michael Berndt, Curtin pro-vice chancellor of health sciences, says Huxley is ...
More »Tourism giant joins Griffith University
Paul Donovan, a prominent Gold Coast tourism figure, has been recruited as an adjunct professor at Griffith University’s Institute for Tourism. Donovan is the executive general manager of business development and marketing for Queensland airports, and was also the chief executive of Gold Coast airports ...
More »ANU prof joins economics society
Professor Rabee Tourky, director of the Australian National University’s Research School of Economics and Trevor Swan chair, has been named a fellow in the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. The society is one of the largest and most ...
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