Originally from Penrith in New South Wales and now based on the Gold Coast, where he completed a Bachelor of Sport Science from Bond University, Wade Chalker has a passion for hamstrings and cricket. He and associate professor Justin Keogh ...
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40 years of focus on tertiary education management as a vocation
2016 marks the anniversary of an organisation that has been aiding and abetting the good leadership and management of tertiary institutions for 40 years, the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM), which first came to the mind of Maurie Blanc, ...
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Researcher enlists computers to find cures hiding in big data
Can computers solve some of the world’s deadliest diseases? That’s the big question one computer scientist is aiming to solve. Associate professor Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne expert in computational bioscience, argues computers can help cure illnesses by simply sifting ...
More »Rankings kingpin warns against under-investing in unis
While Australia has performed solidly in this year’s Times Higher Education rankings of universities aged under 50 – the mastermind behind the list warns Australia’s performance could slip drastically if it doesn’t match the level of investment of its East ...
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Two Curtin students shot while on holiday in New Orleans
UPDATE: The students have now been identified as Toben Clements and Jake Rovacsek. Two Curtin University students suffered gunshot wounds overnight in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the US, in what is believed to have been a drug deal gone wrong, the university ...
More »UTS leads pack of Australian unis in THE’s Top 150 Under 50
Nineteen Australian universities have scored places in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of the Top 150 institutions under 50 years old. Sixteen of these universities placed in the Top 100, equaling Australia's performance from a year prior, when the ranking was ...
More »Cost of student loans blows out; billions to go unpaid
Higher education costs, for both university and vocational training, have blown out to more than $42 billion, with a quarter of these government-funded HELP loans unlikely ever to be repaid. A 10-year projection for these loans conducted by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates accumulated ...
More »COAG-sponsored review warns against sidelining TAFE
A mid-term review of the federal government’s five-year skills plan – implemented by federal Labor in 2012 – has concluded that TAFE shouldn’t be deemed ‘just another provider’ within the VET sector. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) commissioned ACIL Allen's Review ...
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