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UniMelb, UNSW join ‘global elite’ of business schools
The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School and the University of New South Wales’s Australian Graduate School of Management have…
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Young unis stride towards gender equity
Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in…
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UNE introduces mini-degrees
The University of New England has announced that prospective students will now be able to study individual undergraduate and postgraduate…
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Unis to publish true ATAR cut-offs
Forcing universities to publish the true ATAR cut-offs for their courses and creating a MySchool-style website allowing students to compare…
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International Education
Essay mill stumbles into spotlight while spruiking content
With 'essay mills' now well established in higher education, it seems some firms are now stumbling into the public relations…
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UniMelb examines its historical legacy, starting with building names
Throughout the early twentieth century, anthropologist, biologist and zoologist Baldwin Spencer published several influential books that argued the case that…
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Bloomberg ranks UniMelb ninth in the world for MBAs
The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School has leaped into the top ten of Bloomberg’s international MBA ranking. MBS climbed…
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Uni funding peaks, VET funding plummets: Mitchell Institute
A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has shown that public VET spending has declined to its lowest level…
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UC enters STEM education research partnership with Samsung
Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning…
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Funding distortions flagged for fixing by incoming Go8 chair
The incoming chair of Group of Eight has indicated he would like to see the funding distortions affecting disciplines like…
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Industry & Research
Teens prefer print over e-books: study
New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of…
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Expert says VCs shouldn’t have to think like CEOs
What keeps vice-chancellors awake at night? If Dr Julie Rowlands, a Deakin University expert on higher-education governance and author of…
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UTAS receives $2 million for arts hub
The University of Tasmania has received a $2 million boost to an upcoming performing arts centre, with the potential for…
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Loan fee preferable to freezing uni funding: Norton
Introducing a 15 per cent fee for HELP loans is preferable to the federal government choosing to cripple the demand-driven…
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Bebbington to leave U of A post early
University of Adelaide vice-chancellor professor Warren Bebbington has announced he will retire on April 30, 2017, eight months before his contract…
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Private VET graduates get more jobs: NCVER
VET FEE-HELP rorts have tarnished private providers, but data from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Training has indicated that…
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A closer look at 3 foreign recipes for innovation
Listing countries that rank higher than Australia on the Global Innovation Index – it’s a favourite of those pushing the…
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International Education
Trump would be a draw to US for some international students
A survey of 6744 international students has found that 13 per cent are more likely to consider the US as…
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Australia’s tertiary-education cohort tops 2 million
One in five Australians aged 15 to 64, or 3 million people, are enrolled in formal study, figures from the…
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Riordan announces TDA departure to complete PhD on TAFEs
A former political journalist who has spent 11 years advocating for TAFEs will now be completing a PhD on his…
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Wealthy barrister Myers appointed next UniMelb chancellor
A barrister who donated $10 million to the University of Melbourne has been appointed as its next chancellor. Allan Myers…
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Jacobs says Trump, Brexit accelerates unis’ shift to Asia
Donald Trump’s election to the White House and the UK’s Brexit from the European Union has accelerated Australia’s pivot to…
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Innovation talk ‘hijacked’ by tech start-ups: minister
The innovation debate has been hijacked by the tech start-up space, the federal assistant minister for industry, innovation and science…
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Shorten urges Turnbull to ‘fix’ VET student loans
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, urging him to personally intervene and fix supposed…
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Teen tech whiz says career advice should focus on aspirations, not jobs
Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study…
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