One of the leaders behind a program mentoring high school students from refugee backgrounds is marking this year’s World Refugee Week by calling for those on temporary protection visas and asylum seekers to be eligible for federal government assistance to meet ...
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Don’t let disgraceful minority impair quest for equity in private higher education
We are rooting out the unscrupulous operators but government must also do its bit for equitable higher education. As Labor announced its policy promising more apprenticeships through federally funded infrastructure projects, it’s important to remember that it was apprentices and ...
More »Bond bolsters law stocks with fresh trio
Three new academics have joined Bond University's Faculty of Law. A mixture of passion, dynamism and research opportunities attracted the trio to the Gold Coast campus. Professor Rachael Field is an expert on domestic and family violence and an advocate for ...
More »Are universities doing enough to develop the employability of low SES students?
In the past decade, Australia has been successful in expanding the number of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) enrolling in tertiary education. The 2008 Bradley review into Australian higher education highlighted the critical need to expand tertiary educational opportunities ...
More »Floodwater is no place for driving a car
With reports that Sydney’s Warragamba Dam may soon burst, and with parts of Victoria and Queensland bracing for storms and floods, University of New South Wales engineers have a simple message for any motorist considering driving through floodwater: don’t do it. ...
More »Database or data waste?
All that collected information won’t help with the learning and teaching if it’s not measuring the right indicators. Universities around the world face increasing scrutiny, in response to rising costs and the demand that they differentiate themselves from their competitors. ...
More »Break it to them gently: reports often obscure VET’s failings
A national report on the effectiveness of reform politely reveals numerous policy failings. As a consultant in VET for the last 24 years, engaged by many government clients, I have often seen examples of game-playing by those clients. For instance, ...
More »Years of reform have prepared sector for today’s diverse cohort
Diversity is an oft-used, and possibly overused, word in higher education – diversity of our students, diversity of our staff, diversity of our institutions and diversity of our missions – but what does a diverse system look like? Within a ...
More »Hubble telescope shows expansion of cosmos is accelerating
The universe is possibly on course towards tearing itself to pieces, and a study involving Australian National University astrophysicists may have worked out why. The article, "A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant", soon-to-be published in Astrophysical ...
More »Let’s build a contemporary national university
This is a transcript of a speech delivered by professor Brian Schmidt, the Australian National University's vice-chancellor, at the launch of the 2016 Crawford Australian Leadership Forum. An innovative nation is one that readies itself for challenges not yet imagined. ...
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