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Shorten urges Turnbull to ‘fix’ VET student loans
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, urging him to personally intervene and fix supposed shortfalls in the VET student loans program. Shorten said that Turnbull policy’s approved course list is overly simplistic and “would have extreme ...
More »Profile: Oxford-bound snowboarding wings enthusiast Brett Parkinson on his passion for sustainable energy production
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Brett Parkinson has received a 2017 General John Monash Foundation Scholarship. According to the foundation, these grants: ...recognise ...
More »Teen tech whiz says career advice should focus on aspirations, not jobs
Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...
More »Profile: Game, set and match for medical physicist and Switzerland-bound Monash scholar Mark Brooke
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Mark Brooke has received a 2017 General John Monash Foundation Scholarship. The foundation states that these grants: ... recognise excellence ...
More »Victoria proposes ATAR cut-off of 70 for teaching degrees
The Victorian government has today unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to ...
More »Profile: John Monash scholar Timothy Delport is taking his passion for renewables and triathlon skills up to Oxford
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Timothy Delport has received a 2017 General John Monash Foundation Scholarship. According to the foundation, these grants: ...
More »QS ranks USYD 4th in the world for employability
The University of Sydney has placed fourth in the world in the latest iteration of QS’s graduate employability rankings, putting it ahead of institutions like Cambridge University and the University of Oxford. Above of USYD were China’s Tsinghua University (3), the ...
More »UC’s best arts and design grads showcase their finest works
The University of Canberra hosted its annual Faculty of Arts and Design Graduate Showcase on Friday 18 November 2016. This annual event collates and exhibits the standout work from UC's best architecture, industrial and graphic design, media arts, web design and ...
More »‘Splendour’ of chancellors bemoan bureaucracy, warn of more disruption
Deciding on a collective noun for a group of chancellors was one of the pressing issues discussed at the recent Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit. Eventually, Monash University chancellor Simon McKeon, University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese, La Trobe ...
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