The latest Grattan Institute report , 'Risks and rewards: when is vocational education a good alternative to higher education? found that men who scored lower ATARs at school but gained vocational qualifications in engineering, construction and commerce could have higher average earnings than ...
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Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan’s $80-million pledge for “performance-based” university funding will have many “unforeseeable”, “perverse” and “unintended” consequences for Australia’s higher education sector, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has warned. NTEU president Alison Barnes said: “The creation of ...
More »The changing profile of Australia’s international student market
Education consistently rates as Australia’s third largest export, representing eight per cent of the nation’s international exports by value, and adding $32.5 billion to our economy last year.1 While China has continued to represent the top source of this income, ...
More »Key education issues in the media: expert responds
Teacher performance-linked pay, teacher performance generally and student achievement – these are three issues that are never far from the headlines. But are the debates founded on sound evidence or merely the thought bubbles of politicians and populist commentators? We ...
More »Australia’s first student-built, driverless car
It’s taken three years to make and Australia’s first student-built, fully autonomous race car – the M19-D – displayed its capabilities on Open Day at Monash University’s Clayton campus. Showcasing the latest in driverless automotive technology, including “complex environment perception ...
More »India’s ‘two-pronged’ approach to plagiarism
India has made a firm commitment to stamping out plagiarism and contract cheating with the announcement that all public and private universities will be given trial access to anti-plagiarism software. "We have a two-pronged approach. As part of the exercise ...
More »Traditional Languages: Success stories from across the country
As we celebrate The International Year of Indigenous Languages, it is encouraging to see the latest figures released by Victoria’s Education Department. They show an 8000 per cent improvement in the number of Victorian students studying an Aboriginal language* between ...
More »Crowdfunding helps Indian students realise study dreams
For Indian students exploring study abroad opportunities, managing tuition fees, travel and other expenses is often a tricky task. With nearly three-quarters of a million Indian students studying overseas and many more planning to follow suit every year, fully financing ...
More »Weekly roundup 9: UQ clashes, jobs of the future and university research changing lives
Hi, and welcome to episode nine of our weekly top stories review. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor for Campus Review. All stories can be found on our site, campusreview.com.au. The leading story we covered this week was unfortunately not ...
More »Frustration: The essence of good writing?
Everyone in academia can empathise with that feeling of frustration that accompanies lengthy writing tasks, such as theses, journal chapters and edited books. Words, phrases and syntactical choices are pored over; paragraphs are experimented with, adapted and sometimes cast away; ...
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