The scrutiny on the value that business education provides to its stakeholders has intensified globally in recent times. Gone are the heydays when twenty-somethings armed with a business degree could walk into a plum role at a large multinational company ...
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While the world is changing faster than ever, innovation in tertiary education is occurring slowly. Australia is facing an increasingly troubling mismatch between what students and employers need, and what our tertiary education sector is offering. Australia’s tertiary education sector ...
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Should a woman wish to study an undergraduate degree in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney, she would see her ATAR score suddenly jump 10 points. The same adjustment would be made to the ...
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Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled details for a university foreign interference taskforce in his address at the National Press Club in Canberra. The group will be made up of representatives from universities and government agencies in equal measure ...
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Campus Review spent a day at Recovery Camp, a joint program for health students on clinical placement and people with lived experience of mental illness. I put my left foot in and take it back out. I put my left foot ...
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More »How unis have responded to China student boom report
While many of Australia’s vice chancellors have kept mum on the subject of universities’ reliance on Chinese students to fill their coffers, others have tried to temper concerns. The public dialogue was sparked by a report by Associate Professor Salvatore ...
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When it comes to provision of an exceptional educational experience, every student interaction carries weight and contributes to an overall impression. For higher education providers to thrive in an era of enrolment-based funding, understanding what today’s student looks for — ...
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Seven Australian universities are celebrating top 100 positions in a global academic ranking – one for the first time. The 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Despite sliding three spots down the list, ...
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