The University of Canberra has received a boost from the 2017–18 ACT Budget – a $2.7 million allocation to establish a clinical school for nursing, midwifery and allied health. UC is currently in the midst of a healthcare faculty boom: it is ...
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How to improve education outcomes with strategic experience management platforms. Education is massively important to Australian society. As well as contributing significantly to our economy through the provision of employment, the education sector is Australia’s fourth largest export earner. Attracting ...
More »USC shooting Australian animals on Fraser Island
The University of the Sunshine Coast is maximising its locus and propinquity to untouched wilderness and the fauna that resides within in a new hybrid course melding ecology and photography. It's called Animal Ecology and it's taught by USC lecturer ...
More »UTAS VC Peter Rathjen heading home to lead University of Adelaide
The prodigal son is returning to the University of Adelaide. Professor Peter Rathjen, currently vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania, will cross the Bass Strait to the mainland and then head west to replace interim executive Mike Brooks as vice-chancellor at the ...
More »Griffith Uni launches new centre to fight cancer
Australian scientists are leading the world in a new and unique approach to fighting some of the most common cancers with the launch of the Australian Centre for Cancer Glycomics at Griffith University. The new field of research involves targeting ...
More »Opinion: The future of funding VET and higher education: a cohesive approach is needed
The 2017 Budget underscores the need for an approach to tertiary funding that is cohesive and recognises the differences between VET and higher education. Decisions on higher education and vocational education and training (VET) funding contained in Commonwealth government Budgets ...
More »Opinion: Youth, partnerships and soft skills imbuing degrees for real life
Since Torrens University Australia entered the higher education sector in 2013, we have successfully developed and grown nationally, commensurate with the changing needs of our students and the evolving Australian and international education landscape. In two years, the university has ...
More »Opinion: Time to embrace public engagement to secure research funding
Funding for research will soon partly rely on how effectively researchers and universities engage with the community. This year, for the first time, the Australian Research Council (ARC) will pilot the measurement of public engagement and impact by university researchers ...
More »UTS hatching innovators and legal partnerships at start-up accelerator
Hatchery+ is a start-up accelerator at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). This month it signed a partnership agreement with Hong Kong-headquartered law firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). "One of the most difficult aspects of launching a startup is ...
More »USC Headstart program helps high school student bring books to Bali
Sixteen-year-old Mountain Creek State High School student Samara Welbourne is combining her love of books and Bali to lead a $20,000 project to build a library in Bungaya, a rural community on the island popular with Australian tourists. Welbourne started learning ...
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