Australia’s tertiary regulator has flagged an increase in online contractors amping up advertising for illegal cheating services. In a statement, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) said the return to face-to-face learning had seen material promoting “assignment help” ...
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Strictly speaking | Holistorexia
While we might recognise the verbal elements that make up the recently coined word holistorexia its meaning is not immediately obvious. It’s a combination of holist(ic), as in holistic medicine, and (an)orexia which literally means “lack of desire or appetite”. ...
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A new study by UNSW Business school, Yale School of Management and Guanghua School of Management at Peking University reveals that feeling attractive while shopping changes consumer behaviour. According to senior lecturer in the School of Marketing at UNSW Business ...
More »TEDI-London: three global research powerhouses transforming higher education in a teaching-only start-up
How many ideas and exciting bottom-up attempts to do something radical and different in professional education, or using educational technology or pedagogy, or experimenting with admissions practices, have been pulled back by the barriers of a university manual of procedures ...
More »Women in AI award winner wants to help develop Australia’s future talent
From a very young age, Flora Salim has always been fascinated with technology, patterns and computing. The now UNSW Engineering Professor became interested in computing since primary school, when at just 11 years old she learnt how to code. Salim’s ...
More »HEDx podcast – TEDI-London: taking the blinkers off global engineering education, episode 48
Professor Judy Raper, CEO of TEDI-London, joins the podcast to describe how an alliance of research powerhouses Arizona State University, UNSW and Kings College are reconceiving design and engineering education in a start-up in London. A staff cohort with no ...
More »On the move: April-May
LA TROBE MEANS BUSINESS Professor Aron O’Cass is the new Dean of La Trobe University’s Business School. The world-renowned expert in marketing strategy, innovation and new product development, brand management and data analysis was previously head of the department of ...
More »Survey reveals students’ key expectations on technology in their university experience
TechnologyOne recently published its latest annual Student Survey Report, which asked over 17 thousand students across Australia and New Zealand what they expect from their education experience to help uncover the developing trends in student behaviours and motivations in relation ...
More »Monash first in the world for pharmacy studies: QS world rankings
Australian universities have shone against international competitors in the latest round of global subject rankings. Monash University, Curtin University and the Australian National University all secured top spots in the twelfth annual QS World University Rankings 2022. Monash has emerged ...
More »‘Dark day for democracy’: NSW protest bill sparks backlash
New state laws cracking down on protests on major roads and railways have been labelled "disproportionate" and "lacking a rational basis" by a university law professor. Late Friday, NSW Parliament passed legislation which could see a penalty of two years ...
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