Senator Scott Ryan, the minister for vocational education and skills, has embarked on a six-city roadshow to consult and discuss ways to improve the deeply flawed VET FEE-HELP scheme. Kicking off in Perth, Ryan is visiting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns. ...
More »USYD reveals 8-point strategic plan to slash degrees, expand research, manage staff and increase inclusivity
The University of Sydney has unveiled an ambitious policy document for the next five years; its direction to be guided by 8 strategies collectively comprising 29 initiatives. The headline detail from this plan is to slash around 100 degrees from ...
More »AIPE targeted poor, disabled students with false claims: ACCC
The Australian Institute of Professional Education (AIPE) "made false or misleading representations and engaged in unconscionable conduct", including the targeting of socially disadvantaged people and the intellectually disabled, in promoting vocational higher education courses covered by the federal government's troubled ...
More »It’s a bachelor of serious games – seriously
Professor Peter van Onselen's question is so simple, it's only one word long: Seriously? pic.twitter.com/Wg9UJkFCQk — Peter van Onselen (@vanOnselenP) March 29, 2016 The University of Western Australia politics professor, federal Senate expert, columnist for The Australian, Sky News presenter ...
More »Rise of the Machines: AlphaGo’s victory prompts AI academic anxiety
The first thing you need to understand is that Go is a much more complicated game than chess. More than 2500 years old and borne out of classical Chinese antiquity, Go quickly spread through Japan and Korea, and then other ...
More »Bond announces new chancellor to replace retiring Nugent
Bond University has announced that Dr Annabelle Bennett will replace Dr Helen Nugent as its chancellor, officially starting on 19 April 2016. Bennett will be Bond's eighth chancellor in its 29-year history. Bennett originally obtained an Honours degree in Science ...
More »UQ joins app-based study of postpartum depression
Researchers from the University of Queensland have partnered with academics from the University of North Carolina in the US and Cardiff University in the UK to develop a smartphone app to survey women about postpartum depression (PPD, also knows as ...
More »Bond’s Indigenous scholarship students discuss challenges, rewards
At the start of March 2016, Bond University issued a media release titled "Indigenous Australians awarded prestigious scholarships to Bond University". It told of how Bond was giving 21 Indigenous students the financial, cultural and motivational support to "help achieve their dream ...
More »Expert group named to allocate $150m for research
Academics, executives and scientists from leading universities, institutions and industry have been named to the Commonwealth Government's Expert Working Group to guide the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, a federal plan worth $150 million a year. This is a decade-long program. The chairman of ...
More »Australian unis celebrate QS course rankings
Universities around Australia are crowing today at news that they have placed highly in the QS global rankings of courses. University of Melbourne vice-chancellor professor Glyn Davis was pleased to note significant improvement in UniMelb's performance across the board. “We’ve ...
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