Education is big business. It’s Australia’s fourth-largest export earner and employs 8 per cent of the workforce. And the rise of the digital economy is pushing things along. Last year, Open Universities Australia recently celebrated 1 million enrolments, with 36 ...
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Leading medical academics and community figures have invoked the ethical principles of health research to condemn asylum seeker treatment on Manus Island and Nauru, in an open letter to the prime minister. The World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, a ...
More »Opinion: How can we better prepare students for university?
Many students and their parents have been primed to believe that completing the Higher School Certificate and obtaining the ATAR for university course entry will lead to success; however this is not always the case. With the attrition rate at ...
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Elite unis hard to reach for good students lacking money, study finds
International research supports a warning from the outgoing University of Canberra vice-chancellor that Australia’s universities perpetuate inequality. Earlier in February, soon-to-retire professor Stephen Parker challenged the perceived purpose of higher education in remarks made to the TJ Ryan Foundation. In his ...
More »Australian fashion: report on career prospects needs makeover
A report has identified students’ lack of access to apprenticeships as the cause of a bottleneck in Australia’s fashion industry but one leading educator said the figures “have to be taken with a grain of salt”. IBISWorld's Fashion Backward: Career progression increasingly difficult ...
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Work is life for academics: survey
Research has found that, in academia, work is life. For Academic Work/Life Balance: Challenges for theory and practice, sociologists Dr Nick Osbaldiston from James Cook University, Monash University’s Fabian Cannizzo and Christian Mauri from Murdoch University surveyed 155 early- to mid-career academics. The ...
More »Australia needs to spend smarter on infrastructure: report
Australia needs new infrastructure. Now. Over the next 25 years, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane collectively will need to accommodate an extra 5.9 million people. This week, the nation's population hit 24 million. The boom has contributed to the damnable ...
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