Early intervention is the catch-cry in mental health, but the reality of putting young people in touch with support services is not always so simple, with a conference this month being told students with mental illnesses require “scaffolding” to support ...
More »UQ moves into top 100 in world rankings
The University of Queensland has moved into the top 100 in the most recent Academic World Rankings of Universities list, released today by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.Making the top 500 for the first time was Griffith University, which joins 18 ...
More »Call for national study on international students
International students frequently feel like outsiders and institutions need to take greater steps to engage with them if they want to protect their mental health, a conference in Melbourne has been told. Professor Simon Marginson from the Centre for the ...
More »Formal letter was university’s answer to plea for help
Much needs to change in the way tertiary institutions manage students with mental illnesses – down to the language used in official communications and in disciplinary action, a conference in Melbourne has been told. Professor Spencer Zifcak, Allen Myers Chair ...
More »The Blog Rankings
Andrew Norton is known as a higher education researcher, but the most popular post on his blog Observations from Carlton’s Lone Classical Liberal has been about milk bars. “In the back streets of Carlton there was a little milk bar ...
More »Student mobility and a new website key to collaboration with India
Student mobility between Australia and India requires quality assurance, mutual recognition of qualifications and credit transfers. And unless this mobility is in place there can be no collaboration, the Indian government has told a visiting higher education delegation from Australia. ...
More »ACPET backs call for new body on international education
A plan to arrest the decline of international education in Australia through the establishment of a joint government-industry body has been lauded by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training. The Hospitality Training Association has launched a report, The ...
More »UOW gets AUQA tick of approval but also a risk warning
A recent AUQA report has commended the University of Wollongong for providing an excellent onshore student experience but raised concerns that the structure of its relationship with its Dubai counterpart could pose a “reputational risk”. The audit report also said ...
More »NBN rollout an exciting time for incoming ICT chief
Great changes are coming to the sector, says the new Australian Council of Deans of ICT president, and even non-ICT specialists will have to think about how they will be affected. Capitalising on the opportunities and "grand challenges" created by ...
More »Evans on way to India
Tertiary education minister Christopher Evans will travel to India today, the latest in a series of attempts by the Australian government to mend the relationship between the two countries, which soured after a series of attacks on Indian students ...
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