Ever tried to play chasey in a skirt? The thing flaps and billows like a clumsy tornado about your knees. If you’re serious about not getting tagged, nine times out of 10, undergarments will be exposed. Pride will be lost. ...
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At Australian universities and colleges, online course and subject delivery is rapidly disrupting more traditional face-to-face modes of delivery. One in six students are exclusively enrolled online, and a third take at least one subject without having to set foot ...
More »Keeping the best teachers: disrupting pathways and busting myths
Almost half of teaching graduates leave the workforce within five years of entering it. The push factors are complex, often context-specific and interlocking. But understanding and addressing some of the major reasons behind teacher attrition is vital to high-quality education, governments, ...
More »Auckland Uni VC declines to remove white supremacist material from campus, citing free speech
The vice-chancellor of Auckland University in New Zealand has declined to take down white supremacist material from campus, citing free speech. As first reported in the university’s student magazine Craccum, Professor Stuart McCutcheon has described the material as “unfortunate”, but ...
More »‘We stan education!’: AI influencer’s marketing ploy capitalises on student debt anxiety
The anxiety-soaked issue of US student loans has been in the spotlight recently. Earlier this year, in a stunning act of altruism, US billionaire Robert Smith eliminated the debt of a 2019 graduating class. In March, Democratic runner Bernie Sanders ...
More »‘Does it take a village?’ Community influence on university aspirations
Equal access to post-school pathways has been a focus of the government, perennially concerned about developing a robust future workforce to carry the nation forward. A more subtle aspect of this idea of equal access is equal aspiration. How attractive ...
More »Reimagining school to employment pathways: expert panel invites suggestions for 2020 report
A secondary school graduate steps out into the world today, and is confronted with an overwhelming array of choice. It’s not a simple fork in the road anymore, but a multitude of criss-crossing trails. Many will find themselves on pathways ...
More »The end of lectures?
The research in learning and teaching shows clearly that didactic teaching and passive reception do not result in deep, lasting or meaningful learning for most students. Yet we persist with lecturing at students in large groups in most universities. Worse, ...
More »Professor’s first student-less lecture ignites debate over modern teaching practices
Friday, 9am. Then five past the hour. The clock crept on. Still, the students had not arrived. Beginning to wonder if he was in the wrong lecture theatre, the professor called the subject coordinator. Nope, he was in the right ...
More »Australia’s first ‘university college’ named
A Seventh-day Adventist higher education provider in Lake Macquarie, NSW, has become Australia's first “university college”. Founded over a century ago, Avondale College of Higher Education had its new category status approved late last month by the federal government’s Tertiary Education ...
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