Students still divided on compulsory union fees as Govt bill stalls writes Susan Woodward The National Union of Students (NUS) is pessimistic about the fate of a controversial $250 student fee, saying it’s unlikely the new parliament will make the ...
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Collaboration between schools and a university is leading to better teacher training. Darragh O Keeffe reports. A new university mentoring program is providing student teachers with a more realistic school-based experience, enabling them to develop peer relationships with teachers. The ...
More »Internationalisation will reshape world higher education by 2025
Authors forecast growing numbers and tight budgets will create university 'tiers' writes John Morgan This is one of the forecasts made in a new book, Globalisation and Internationalization in Higher Education, edited by Felix Maringe, senior lecturer in education at the ...
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Australian location for management school’s third international campus A leading Indian business school has announced it will spend $45 million setting up a residential campus in western Sydney for its international students. The SP Jain Center of Management will open the campus, ...
More »Sands are shifting in the global education market place
Domestic and global factors collide to create the perfect storm in Australian higher ed Bruce Muirhead writes In 1967 in a piece entitled ‘The future of teaching’ American scholar William Arrowsmith declared that universities were as “uncongenial to teaching as ...
More »Social Web use a gap in education
Whether you are a resident or visitor to the web counts in e-learning research There is a gulf growing between the expectations and activities of students within the social web, and the expectations and practices of university staff within the ...
More »Anholt to advise on international education
More than 1000 delegates expected at Australian Internation Education conference Simon Anholt, a policy adviser to governments on national identity and reputation will be the keynote speaker at this year’s international education conference in Sydney. Delegates will be hoping Anholt ...
More »Postgraduate jobs hit by GFC
Postgrad Jobs are down but they are still higher than general population The global financial crisis has hurt postgraduate employment, with a new survey revealing the lowest rates for a decade in 2009. More than 47,000 postgraduates participated in last ...
More »Australia saves face with MBA rankings
Business masters from Australian universities ranked high by newspaper Five full-time Australian MBA programs are considered among the best in the world, according to The Economist’s 2010 ranking of the top 100, released this month. At number 46 globally, Melbourne ...
More »Letter from the editor
Learning to change has never been easy writes Annette Blackwell I am privileged to take on the role as editor of Campus Review in my new position as editor in chief of APN’s educational media. The publication is highly regarded ...
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