National apprentice and trainee commencements (trade and non-trade) increased to 55,680 in the March 2019 quarter, up 2.2 per cent on the same period last year. Published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the latest report, Apprentices and trainees ...
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The most creative university students from around Australia came together over the weekend to help develop solutions to real and current problems faced by humanitarian disaster organisation RedR Australia. The Professor Ron Johnston Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon, hosted by The Warren ...
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The University of Queensland plans to offer an extended major in Western Civilisation as soon as next year following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. In signing the MOU, UQ’s chancellor and vice-chancellor, ...
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A wall of inequality was built into our post-schooling system decades ago, and today its legacy has left us with an educational caste system of haves and have-nots. Despite countless reviews and attempts to break it down, this wall is ...
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Personalised and adaptive learning are not necessarily new terms, dating back to the 1960s and 1970s respectively, but even today there is no blanket definition for either, meaning the line drawn between the two can often be blurred. Whilst personalisation ...
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In looking at ways to comprehensively restructure its first year student program, Victoria University chose to abandon the "industrial model of education that is very hard to change". Professor Marcia Devlin, VU's senior deputy vice-chancellor, was presenting at this week's ...
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Universities, and businesses, all around the world are littered with failed technology projects. If you dig into why those projects fail, the fundamental reasons are often the same – the scope wasn’t well defined or they were trying to achieve ...
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