By China's megacity standards Shijiazhuang is middling place. Around 250 kilometres southwest of the capital Beijing and ringed by the misty, ice-capped Taihang Mountains, Shijiazhuang is home to 12 million residents. Due to the city being mostly flat but with propinquity to ...
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The University of New South Wales has secured a significant windfall out of the Australia + China mutual lovefest taking place in the world's biggest country, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been visiting this week. An investment of $30 million ...
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The University of Western Australia is hosting an exhibition through the middle of 2016 focused on the life and work of noted Indigenous Australian artist, elder and statesman Bungal (David) Mowaljarlai. Curated by Berndt Museum archivist Eve Chaloupka, Vision and Voice ...
More »Go8 releases admissions transparency policy, still backs ATAR
The Go8 has today released an ATAR Transparency policy that it hopes will add clarity to the ongoing debate around university admissions, while reaffirming its support for the system. "We are committed to the Australian Tertiary Admission Ranking (ATAR) as ...
More »Bond researcher develops intriguing hamstring theory
Originally from Penrith in New South Wales and now based on the Gold Coast, where he completed a Bachelor of Sport Science from Bond University, Wade Chalker has a passion for hamstrings and cricket. He and associate professor Justin Keogh ...
More »40 years of focus on tertiary education management as a vocation
2016 marks the anniversary of an organisation that has been aiding and abetting the good leadership and management of tertiary institutions for 40 years, the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM), which first came to the mind of Maurie Blanc, ...
More »Two Curtin students shot while on holiday in New Orleans
UPDATE: The students have now been identified as Toben Clements and Jake Rovacsek. Two Curtin University students suffered gunshot wounds overnight in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the US, in what is believed to have been a drug deal gone wrong, the university ...
More »Cost of student loans blows out; billions to go unpaid
Higher education costs, for both university and vocational training, have blown out to more than $42 billion, with a quarter of these government-funded HELP loans unlikely ever to be repaid. A 10-year projection for these loans conducted by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates accumulated ...
More »UQ equality bake sale sets tongues tasting, and wagging
It was supposed to be one of the quieter moments on the University of Queensland's slate of Feminist Week calendar of events. Madeline Price and her colleagues at the UQ Union (UQU) were coming up with ideas to fill some free space that ...
More »Disruption, VET, internationalisation and women in higher education on the agenda at Futureproof 2016
Management, leaders and professional staff from universities, TAFE institutes, private providers, professional associations, regulatory bodies and government are encouraged to attend Futureproof 2016, a vital meeting of minds to discuss and debate the major issues affecting the higher education sector. ...
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