Australian employers continue to be pleased with the quality of our university graduates, with 84 per cent of direct supervisors surveyed satisfied with graduate employees. Published by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), the 2019 Employer Satisfaction Survey also ...
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Whistleblower calls for closer look at VET regulator’s practices
The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) – Australia's VET regulator for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) – has been attacked for alleged over-spending, non-compliance measures and allowing unqualified auditors to undertake auditing activities. A whistleblower from Education Issues Australia contacted Campus ...
More »Australia ranks second in survey of best locations to study abroad in 2020
A survey of over 30,000 students has revealed that Australia is the second-most favoured study location in the world in 2020, coming just behind Canada. The survey, conducted for the second year in a row by educations.com, also revealed that ...
More »Humanities academy welcomes ARC funding and senate inquiry into nationhood
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has welcomed the government’s $12 million pledge to fund research into Australian society, history and culture as well as the senate inquiry into our national identity. “Between 2011 and 2020, just three per cent ...
More »The kindness of strangers project – Cyril Grueter. Podcast
Last week Campus Review published an article about the research of UWA's Dr Cyril Grueter and a team of Edith Cowan University researchers that suggested altruism or kindness as a personality trait does not apply to everyone, and is more ...
More »Keep the date but acknowledge the mourning: Indigenous academic on Australia Day
An Indigenous academic has argued that changing the date of Australia Day will not address the deep-seated feelings of loss and sadness that accompany it for many of Australia’s original inhabitants. However, Monash Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Issues Jacinta Elston ...
More »UQ developing vaccine to contain coronavirus outbreak
The University of Queensland has been asked to use new technology it has developed to quickly create a vaccine for the recent coronavirus outbreak. The request came from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a global alliance that coordinates ...
More »Academia: is it still a man’s world?
New Zealand female academics could build a house with the amount of money they were underpaid compared to their male counterparts, a new study has found. A University of Canterbury study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, repudiates what’s called the ...
More »Are academics human beings or human resources?
The casualisation of academic staff is nothing new in Australia – Campus Review has covered the topic many times and yet the problem seems to only get worse. (Kate Prendergast's story A vision for radical university change illustrates the extent of ...
More »First Fulbright scholarship awarded to Federation Uni academic
Associate Professor Robyn Brandenburg has received a Fulbright Training and Research scholarship – one of the most prestigious in the world – for her research into the effectiveness of Teacher Performance Assessments (TPA). These assessments certify whether a graduate is ...
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