This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Currently completing a Master's in Gerontology at Western Sydney University, Bernice Anokye is the director of nursing ...
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Michael Evans is the managing director of Dell Boomi, a cloud-based integration company that brings together the student and faculty data developed and stored in various apps and programs and across desktop and mobile devices. Evans joined Campus Review to ...
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This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Glenn Savage has recently co-authored (with Tom Bentley) Educating Australia: Challenges for the Decade Ahead, a book ...
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NSW tertiary students are calling for a standardised support system for women who experience sexual assault or rape on university and TAFE campuses. The student-led petition is urging mandatory training on sexual consent for residents and staff in residential colleges ...
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The good lexicographical folks at Macquarie Dictionary have done the teachers of Australia a great service this week, decoding some of the patois overwhelming uni quads in 2017. Presented below are some of more interesting new additions — 'neologism' in the ...
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Regional students throughout Australia are moving at unprecedented levels to the big smoke to study. A study funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education at Curtin University shows the number of students shifting from regional towns ...
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Universities aren't necessarily going to like all of the Turnbull government's new education policy, the minister in charge plans to tell their chiefs. But Simon Birmingham is seeking their support in encouraging a bipartisan approach to set the sector up ...
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In a post-truth world of "alternative facts", one man is going in to bat for evidence. Universities Australia chairman Barney Glover says there's been a creeping cynicism and even outright hostility towards evidence and expertise, both in Australia and around ...
More »University of Adelaide investigating Australia’s dental health
Australia's oral health has been put in the dentists chair. The first national study of oral health will examine the gums and teeth of 15,000 Australians during the next 12 months. The $5.8 million study will be conducted by researchers at ...
More »UniMelb looks at the future of higher education in new Vision essay collection
Richard James is the director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. The Centre has released a new essay collection titled Visions for Australian Tertiary Education, coedited by James with colleagues Sarah ...
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