The 2016 Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year is getting a work out. 'Post-truth' is the subject of a new USYD research project. Simply named the Post-Truth Initiative, it pools together researchers from fields as diverse as physics, philosophy, data ...
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Contrary to popular thought, it's construction, not coding, that's most in-demand by employers. The 2017 Soft Skills in Demand Report, released last week, revealed this surprising fact. Report issuer JobGetter analysed 168,000 job ads across 54 industries before reaching this ...
More »Monash’s carbon-free pledge questioned
With much fanfare, Monash recently announced it’s going clean. The Group of Eight member vowed that by 2030, all its energy will be derived from renewable sources. Additionally, it has committed to being carbon neutral by this date. This means that ...
More »For international students, the mental health struggle is real
“When I first arrived, I managed to get a job at an accommodation house welcoming new students because people thought I was nice, but in my first week I couldn’t even pick up the phone to talk to students as ...
More »Meet Australia’s highest-cited scholar
Professor Herb W. Marsh is in good company. The educational psychologist from ACU has joined Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky as one of the most-cited researchers in the world. According to a Spanish agency funded by the European ...
More »Professor toughens up trainee teachers
Caroline Mansfield is teaching teachers resilience on a global scale. The Murdoch University Associate Professor's program, the sunnily-named Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRITE), has 5,000 users and counting. Resilience - the capacity to quickly bounce back after setbacks - sounds ...
More »How to crack the Ivy League, from an expert at it
Warner Huntington III: You got into Harvard Law? Elle: What? Like it's hard? Elle Woods, the protagonist in the 2001 film Legally Blonde, would have you believe being admitted to the Ivy League - a group of eight, elite US universities - ...
More »Universities expecting disruption by 2030
Navitas Ventures - the innovation arm of global higher education provider Navitas - has been pondering digital transformation in higher education. After realising universities, students and edtech venture founders were too, it solicited their views on the matter. "We wanted to ...
More »UON revamps arts faculty to produce more employable grads
As the coastal NSW city of Newcastle reinvents itself - from manufacturing heavyweight to knowledge hub - the University of Newcastle is changing too. The notable young university is dusting off its School of Humanities and Social Sciences. "...We really need to make ourselves much ...
More »Young people lost, disenchanted with careers and advice
Our educational institutions are failing our young people, a survey has determined. Youth career coaching firm TwoPointZero asked 1,000 Australians aged 16 to 24 a range of questions about their career aspirations and realities. They found a gulf between the two. For instance, ...
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