The annual snapshot of short-term graduate outcomes has been released by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), measuring key areas such as full-time employment, overall employment, labour force participation, median full-time salaries, further study outcomes and graduate satisfaction. Labour ...
More »New book aims to help academics reclaim control from ‘time thieves’
No matter what section of society you speak to, there seems to be a sense of pity felt for K-12 teachers. After all, they teach our youth through much of their most difficult years and cop their fair share of ...
More »Issue of the week 1: Should all university funding be accepted? Podcast
Guilt by association has always been a vexed issue, but in the era of #metoo and corporate and social responsibility, careers can disappear overnight, lives can be destroyed, and reputations can be irrevocably damaged. That might be the situation facing a teacher ...
More »Charles Sturt among regional scholarship program’s big winners
Charles Sturt University will receive 63 scholarships valued at $2,838,000 as part of the Coalition Government’s Destination Australia program, conceived to encourage more students into regional areas of the country. More than $800,000 in scholarship funding has been earmarked for ...
More »Postgraduate program launched to address new maths requirements
Notre Dame University has announced a postgraduate program to retrain teachers in mathematics after it was announced the NSW government will make maths a compulsory subject in years 11 and 12 and prospective primary school teachers will need to achieve ...
More »It’s all in the walk: Researchers identify hope for dementia patients
Researchers at Monash University have discovered a potential link between the way individuals walk and their likelihood of developing dementia. To put it more scientifically, the researchers were investigating “whether variability from one step to the next during walking, and ...
More »Avatars equip Murdoch uni students with a taste of real classroom challenges
Preparing teachers for dealing with challenging students is one of the most important aspects of a teaching degree, but until now many courses took a more theoretical approach to the issue or relied on the exposure preservice teachers would receive ...
More »CR news of the week: Which degrees will guarantee work in the future?
Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Once upon a time, having a degree – yes, any degree – was seen as a guarantee to getting into the workforce and eventually working up the ranks. You can either ...
More »Education union accuses government of sending TAFE into ‘oblivion’
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has accused the Morrison Government of sending TAFE into “oblivion” after underspending almost $1 billion in the last five years flagged for apprenticeship, skills and training initiatives. The funding shortfall appeared in a federal Department ...
More »Murdoch University’s ‘aggressive’ student recruitment could hurt other Australian universities
A Murdoch University staff member who would prefer not to be named for legal reasons says the ABC TV 4 Corners program on international students could have a negative impact on other Australian universities’ ability to recruit from growing student markets like ...
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