Melbourne University's Business School has been recognised for having the most prestigious executive MBA program in Australia for the third year in a row. The sixth round of the QS Global Executive MBA Rankings, released yesterday, recognised only five Australian ...
More »HEDx podcast – The place of EdPlus in the ASU story, episode 52
Online education's journey to becoming core to the whole university – and to all students who make their own choice of how, when and where to gain access to inclusive excellence – is a pointer to the future for hybrid ...
More »US university returns sacred Indigenous objects
The University of Virginia in the US has repatriated seven sacred Indigenous objects to central Australia. The materials were collected by a delegation of Warlpiri men from Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, from an Adelaide museum last week. This follows ...
More »Students are ‘waiting to kill me’, says RMIT academic
An RMIT lecturer who likened teaching to "going to war" has lost his appeal to overturn a dismissal from workplace regulators. Engineering lecturer Dr Amir Reza Zokaei Fard filed an unfair dismissal case to the Fair Work Commission in January ...
More »Persistent gender gap in first-year university results
Young men are enrolling in university at lower rates than women, and are more likely to fail the majority of their first-year course subjects, University Admissions Centre (UAC) data has shown. A recent UAC analysis looked at first-year university grade ...
More »Mass redundancies left academics with ‘survivors guilt’
Tenured academics feel exploited, trapped in their jobs and experience a sense of ‘survivor's guilt’ from seeing their colleagues being made redundant during COVID-19, a survey has shown. Researchers from Curtin University and Murdoch University spoke with 35 full-time academics ...
More »The missing ten per cent – you get what you pay for in higher education: opinion
Why do ten per cent of Australian students choose non-government (independent) institutions of higher education in preference to universities? With over 140,000 students enrolled in approximately 120 independent higher education institutions, this sector saves the Australian taxpayer the cost of ...
More »What are the opportunities and threats to universities from EdTech investments? – opinion
The division of labour within workforces and the specialisation in products and services in supply chains have created highly advanced specialisms within complex teams and differentiation between competitors in markets other than higher education. The journey of going from good ...
More »ANU leads discovery of fastest-growing supermassive black hole
A team of global astronomers from Australian National University have discovered the fastest-growing supermassive black hole of the past 9 billion years. Scientists spotted the extremely bright quasar, a luminous object powered by a supermassive black hole, through a 1.3-metre ...
More »Quasi-judicial committees vs state courts: opinion
The MeToo# hashtag had more than 19 million respondents in its first year alone, with many survivors disclosing their stories for the first time. It became, as Tarana Burke - the acknowledged founder of the movement - puts it “one ...
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