The Australian Research Council has released a simplified version of the national interest test which will see disciplinary experts assess grant applications, rather than civil servants. Announced on Thursday, the new changes aim to "significantly reduce the administrative burden for ...
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Griffith University staff strike over pay negotiations
Staff from Griffith University have stopped work for a day to protest stalled wage negotiations and job insecurity at the Queensland campus. In late November, university management sent out enterprise agreement offers to staff after back-and-forth talks with the union ...
More »Australia’s RMIT University partners with HCLTech to seamlessly transition SAMS to AWS Cloud
HCLTech, a leading global technology company and member of Oracle’s Partner Network, has delivered a cloud-first transformation and application modernisation project for RMIT University’s Student Administration Management System (SAMS). Founded in 1887, RMIT is a multi-sector university of technology, ...
More »Deakin Uni wage dispute goes to Fair Work
Deakin uni will face the fair work commission after being accused of alleged "systemic wage theft" by the NTEU. The National Tertiary Education Union claims the enterprise agreement was breached after more than 650 staff across four campuses were paid ...
More »Universities face-to-face plans for 2023
The majority of Australia's major universities have revealed plans to ditch remote learning and make a full transition to face-to-face classes this year. As of February 2023, staff and students from the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne ...
More »Medical research: $100bn spent with poor results
Australia’s $100bn investment in health and medical research across the past two decades has failed to produce a strong local biopharmaceutical industry according to a new report, raising questions about whether the investment can be justified on a value for ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Answering the big questions about lifelong learning and research funding – episode 63
University of Technology Sydney Vice Chancellor Professor Andrew Parfitt joined HEDx to share his vision for the research and innovation ecosystem. Parfitt also discussed the unanswered questions about lifelong learning as a Universities Accord and ARC Review process get underway. CampusReview ...
More »Why returning to campus is not a good option in the new reality – opinion
There is much talk in both the media and dispatches from government agencies about the idea of mandating the return of students to campus – in fact a number of providers (both public and private) have attempted such a thing ...
More »ARC allocates $221M for discovery grants
Over 400 research projects from 32 major Australian universities have been greenlit for more than $221 million dollars as part of next year's round of the ARC Discovery Projects scheme. The 2023 ARC Discovery grants were distributed in all states ...
More »Teal named Australia’s 2022 word of the year
ANU experts have chosen ‘teal’ as the 2022 Word of the Year, following independent candidates scooping away eight Liberal seats across NSW and ACT during the federal election. Usually associated with dark greenish-blue colour or a breed of duck. In ...
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