Apprenticeship seekers will now be able to check vacancies both nationally and by jurisdiction after Global Apprenticeship Network Australia (GAN) recently launched its Apprenticeship Vacancy Index (AVI). The index, which will be updated throughout the year, will show overall job ...
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Ramsay Centre chief executive Professor Simon Haines has rejected The University of Sydney's latest proposal to modify the Centre's Western Civilisation degree. The modification involved reducing the full major to just two subjects and allowing far more students to access ...
More »Scrap ATAR and rethink career pathways: Experts call for overhaul
A new report is proposing a rethink on how educators approach senior schooling and tertiary education, and calls for the ATAR to be replaced with a more comprehensive “learning profile”. The Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) position paper, titled Beyond ATAR: ...
More »Regional universities top key ranking: Good Universities Guide 2020
The Good Universities Guide 2020 has named Charles Sturt University the top-ranked Australian university in graduate employment, with 86 per cent of graduates securing full-time work within four months of completing their courses. The guide also found that Charles Sturt ...
More »We must start listening to the experts: Opinion
I could easily style myself as an education expert: I have the prefix in front of my name that lends legitimacy; I run a national organisation focused on education research; and I’ve been an education adviser to a minister. Others ...
More »Ramsay Centre negotiations with Sydney University not over yet
After more than a year of negotiations with the University of Sydney, vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence has written to the Ramsay Centre to propose an alternative program that would increase the number of students involved in studying Western civilisation and ...
More »This week’s big issue | Ridd prepares for JCU appeal
Former James Cook University academic and world-renowned expert in marine physics Professor Peter Ridd has started a GoFundMe page to cover legal costs needed to continue his fight against JCU’s unfair dismissal claim. In mid-April the Federal Circuit Court ordered ...
More »Australian researcher named world’s best
Very few people can say they’re ‘the best in the world’ at anything, but for Charles Sturt University Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharynne McLeod, that’s exactly the case. A year after being named Australia’s leading researcher in her ...
More »‘It all starts with the first test’: Predicting student achievement at university
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields From my own university experience, I figured Fields’ quote made a lot of sense: those who perform well ...
More »New CREATE Centre wants all learning infused with creativity and the arts
The centrality of creativity and the arts to learning and the future of the workforce is the focus of a new centre launched this week at the University of Sydney by award-wining playwright Wesley Enoch, and attended by roughly 100 ...
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