Technology, rural shortages and changing definitions of mental health will all affect the profession, but opportunities for careers will remain. Rising rates of mental ill-health in recent years have been matched by an overall increased awareness and understanding of such ...
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WSU’s Glover says more jobs in Western Sydney can help ease traffic
Call it a budding innovation ecosystem, or an education turf war. Either way, universities have their sights set on Sydney’s west. But the vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University has argued the incoming education boom could be brought to a bumper-to-bumper ...
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VICE, UTS partner to train media students
While print revenues shrivel as traditional media struggle to understand this thing called the internet, online magazine VICE has embraced it, and is omnipresent throughout millennials’ Facebook feeds. Now the largely 20-something class of 2016 communications cohort at the University ...
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Collaboration is the beating heart of effective vocational education spaces, an architect has said. Mark Freeman, from specialist educational architecture firm Gray Puksand, recently completed a $5.1 million VET facility situated in Melbourne’s Somerville Secondary College. Freeman said he worked closely ...
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2016 Budget sees major uni reform delayed: how the day after unfolded
We welcome your feedback and comments, via email, Twitter or the comments box below. 4:32pm Professor Eeva Leinonen, Murdoch University's vice-chancellor, said her university will continue to help disadvantaged students despite the 20 per cent cut to HEPP. Despite #budget2016 ...
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One of the women spearheading the push for gender equity in science will soon direct the University of New South Wales’ research strategy. Professor Emma Johnston – marine ecologist, science broadcaster and prominent advocate for gender equity – will add ...
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