Universities could axe their end-of-semester exams, big lectures and even paper as trends emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher education will emerge into the ‘new normal’ with an evolved learning and teaching model. More authentic assessments, individualised lifelong learning and face-to-face ...
More »Victoria’s $350m uni offer sparks renewed calls for more federal intervention
Hard-hit Victorian universities will be thrown a $350 million financial lifeline by the state government to recover from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. In addition, the government will offer universities payroll tax deferrals of around $110 million, higher education ...
More »Australia’s tertiary education system: Repair to the past or rebuild for the future?
One of the learnings from the extraordinary public health, social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the depth and duration of which is yet to be fully experienced, is to clearly identify and deliberately find solutions to each ‘next highest ...
More »Fighting ageism with digital storytelling
Academics are drawing links between ageism in society and increased instances of elder abuse. To combat this, a collaboration between researchers from Swinburne University and Eastern Community Legal Centre has developed a slew of digital stories to help dispel myths ...
More »Putting collaboration on the map: using interdisciplinary research to battle timely global issues
Perhaps no topic in recent history has garnered as much public and academic attention as COVID-19. News of this pandemic has saturated the international airwaves since it was first reported in late 2019. In its wake, life has ground to ...
More »Gender imbalance in maths threatens pandemic recovery and future crisis response
The Australian Mathematical Science Institute’s (AMSI) latest report argues that gender inequity and imbalance will jeopardise the nation’s intellectual capability, compromising both post-coronavirus recovery and future responses to pandemics. The report coincides with the 2020 International Women in Mathematics Day, ...
More »‘No perfect options’ as union reveals details of pay cut deal
Negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Australia’s universities have culminated in a deal that could see full-time staff take a salary cut of between 5 and 15 per cent. The union said today that the move will ...
More »UK research into genetic riddle of virus
British researchers will study the genes of thousands of ill COVID-19 patients to try to crack one of the most puzzling riddles of the novel coronavirus: why does it kill some people but give others not even a mild headache? ...
More »Swathes of Year 10 students taught by out-of-field teachers: new study
One in eight Year 10 STEM classes is taught by an out-of-field teacher, Australia’s largest study into the issue has found. The University of Sydney and Monash University report used data from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ...
More »New WA government loans for virus-hit unis, councils
Universities and local governments taking a financial hit from coronavirus are being offered $100 million in short-term loans from the West Australian government. Applications to the WA Treasury Corporation will be open from June 1, with applicants required to show ...
More »