“The blue stocking is the most odious character in society … she sinks wherever she was placed, like the yolk of an egg, to the bottom, and carries the filth with her.” Those are the thoughts of 18th-century English writer ...
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A new scheme is getting students to play to their strengths in the academic environment, and it has the potential to engage staff. Jack Iveson is running a strengths-based program at Torrens University’s APM College of Business and Communication, where ...
More »Deakin, QUT surge ahead in 2016 world rankings
Two Australian universities have experienced a meteoric rise in this year’s Academic Ranking of World Universities. Another six local institutions made the top 100. The ARWU table, published by China-based ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, ranks 500 universities based on educational and staff ...
More »Don’t worry about drop-out rates: Craven
Despite data showing first-year undergraduate student drop-out rates have hit their highest point in eight years, the Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor has sidestepped concerns about these figures, saying data-driven learning analytics can handle it. Professor Greg Craven told a policy forum yesterday that ...
More »‘War’ looms between STEM subjects: expert
An expert has warned a discipline war is brewing among the STEM subjects, and she expects engineering to come out on the bottom. STEM is the oft-used acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the focus of politicians and educators who are trying to ...
More »Dinham’s new three ‘Rs’ for educational research
Most have heard of the educational theory of learning styles, which argues students can be categorised as either tactile, auditory or visual learners. It’s been around since the 1970s. It’s also now largely regarded as pseudo-scientific fad; studies have found no ...
More »Science ship to become floating classroom
A $120 million research ship that's discovered underwater volcanoes and investigated climate change will become a floating classroom for budding marine scientists and mariners. The CSIRO’s RV Investigator is set to host the Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Alliance Network ...
More »Paralympian works to adopt parts of US sports scholarship system
Wheelchair basketball Paralympian Bridie Kean owes some of her success to being poached for a US sports scholarship. Now she wants to bring aspects of that system back to Australia, to entice the local talent to study and compete here. ...
More »Don’t let ‘statistics’ stop STEM studies: Birmingham
A Grattan Institute report released today showing that graduate positions in STEM are scarce has – somewhat ironically – led the federal education minister to say that “we should not allow statistics like this to sway people from the importance ...
More »Bebbington, Urbanest tight-lipped about accommodation deal
The University of Adelaide and Urbanest haven’t revealed the cost of their newest student accommodation partnership, despite two News Corp papers reporting the price tag at $100 million. On Wednesday, Urbanest announced it would build a new student accommodation centre ...
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