Around half of Australian PhD students want to work in business and employers are keen to hire them – so why are they still facing hurdles to landing such a job? Released by Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and CSIRO Data61, a new ...
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Monday to Friday, behind a desk, in the one place. This is the standard – and much-bemoaned – model for work life. It’s also the model for much of pre-tertiary education, from kindergarten to Year 12. Is this monotonous, precisely ...
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Mei Krishnasamy has a strong Cardiff accent that belies her many years in Melbourne. The Welsh native has been living in Australia on and off since the early 2000s, and since 2016 has been the inaugural chair of cancer nursing ...
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BRUMBY LEADS THE CHARGE Former Victorian premier John Brumby has become the eighth chancellor of La Trobe University. “Taking up this role is something of a homecoming,” Brumby said. “My first job in education was as a secondary teacher in ...
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Exotic fruits keep arriving from overseas with foreign names which are hard to remember for those unfamiliar with the language of origin. The Japanese yuzu, a craggy-skinned lemon-like fruit the size of a billiard ball is a recent arrival, now ...
More »JCU unlawfully sacked marine scientist: judge
A judge has ruled that James Cook University’s termination of Dr Peter Ridd’s employment was unlawful. The marine scientist was dismissed by JCU in May last year. In his view, it was because he “dared to fight the university and ...
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UQ PUTS TRUST IN GILLESPIE The University of Queensland Business School has partnered with professional services firm KPMG Australia to establish a new chair in organisational trust, Professor Nicole Gillespie. A leading international scholar in the field, Gillespie will work ...
More »Taking a fresh approach to cybersecurity in the education sector
As we approach the middle of 2019, education institutions the world over are no doubt bracing for a busy year of learning against an ever-increasing number of cyber-attacks. For many, their natural defence mechanism is to deploy new technology and ...
More »Models for federated cooperation: past practice and future implications for VET
The final report of the national VET review, “Strengthening Skills: Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System” (Joyce Review) has just been published, and its early stage recommendations have been comprehensively adopted within the announced national budget. A ...
More »Internet reacts to black hole image in the way that it does
Scientists released the first ever captured image of a black hole and the internet reacted in ways that might surprise no one. Earlier this week, the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a planet-scale array of eight ground-based ...
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