The higher education sector has welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s release of an options – or discussion – paper to garner feedback from stakeholders as to the direction of policy. The paper has been referred to as a reset button that ...
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WSU’s Glover says more jobs in Western Sydney can help ease traffic
Call it a budding innovation ecosystem, or an education turf war. Either way, universities have their sights set on Sydney’s west. But the vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University has argued the incoming education boom could be brought to a bumper-to-bumper ...
More »Budget stimulates university, student, government trilemma: IRU
The Government has pulled back from deregulation of student fees but retains its aim for significant savings in higher education. It wants to balance the amount the government pays with the amount students pay. Major changes will not take place ...
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VICE, UTS partner to train media students
While print revenues shrivel as traditional media struggle to understand this thing called the internet, online magazine VICE has embraced it, and is omnipresent throughout millennials’ Facebook feeds. Now the largely 20-something class of 2016 communications cohort at the University ...
More »USYD marketing student scores $6,000 Canon scholarship
A University of Sydney marketing scholar is $6000 to the good this week having pocketed Canon's annual Honours Scholarship. Declan O'Neill picked up the purse for his seminal research on the anthropomorphism of consumer brands, such as a battery that ...
More »‘We hope for not taking away old things’: USQ VC and RUN chair’s withering assessment of politically astute budget
Jan Thomas is the vice-chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland, based at its Toowoomba campus, and the chair of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), comprising Central Queensland University, Federation Universities Australia, Southern Cross University, University of New England, University ...
More »Design collaboratively, learn the same way: architect
Collaboration is the beating heart of effective vocational education spaces, an architect has said. Mark Freeman, from specialist educational architecture firm Gray Puksand, recently completed a $5.1 million VET facility situated in Melbourne’s Somerville Secondary College. Freeman said he worked closely ...
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Australian unis’ global reputations falter
Only three Australian universities have been included in the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings for World Reputation in 2016. Last year, there were five. Eight institutions from the US, along with the Oxbridge pair, make up the Top 10. The University of ...
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