It’s a lovely morning in the village… and you are a horrible goose. That’s how the creators of Untitled Goose Game described their work in a simple trailer for the game. Fast forward to its September release and it has ...
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Almost half of teaching graduates leave the workforce within five years of entering it. The push factors are complex, often context-specific and interlocking. But understanding and addressing some of the major reasons behind teacher attrition is vital to high-quality education, governments, ...
More »Death of the business school? How they should look in the future
The scrutiny on the value that business education provides to its stakeholders has intensified globally in recent times. Gone are the heydays when twenty-somethings armed with a business degree could walk into a plum role at a large multinational company ...
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Campus Review spent a day at Recovery Camp, a joint program for health students on clinical placement and people with lived experience of mental illness. I put my left foot in and take it back out. I put my left foot ...
More »The LANTITE: holding our degrees hostage
Imagine you are at least halfway through your degree (93 per cent for me) and your university decides to spring on you that you now have to complete another hurdle before you are allowed to graduate. Not work. Graduate. Well ...
More »Hidden treasures: feeding the world with future smart food
In a world that talks of 'obesity epidemics' and 'global connectedness', hundreds of millions struggle each day to get enough food to survive. For more than 800 million people on our planet, much of their daily life and what energy ...
More »Tradie to nurse: the men who could help fill the nursing shortfall
With an ageing and growing population, the nursing industry has to try and keep up. The number of RNs needed is expected to hit 330,900 by 2023, up from 279,600 in 2018, leaving a shortfall of 51,300 jobs. There will also ...
More »How educators can keep up with the fast pace of industry change: an NDIS case study
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is an ambitious and much needed undertaking. By 2020, 460,000 people will participate in the scheme. That’s roughly one in every 40 Australians. The NDIS will give people with a disability choice and control ...
More »Keeping it in the family: mother, daughter graduate with nursing degrees
“How would you have gone if you had taken your mum to uni, Conor?” recent nursing graduate and mother Lorella McLatchey asks me. As I ponder this, I imagine sitting at the uni bar while my mother stares at me disapprovingly, ...
More »Strengthening professional learning in schools through university collaboration
Teachers could be forgiven for approaching professional learning with a degree of ambivalence. With unrelenting administrative tasks, classroom teaching, preparation and marking, there is always the risk that such learning becomes an encumbrance, a “tick-the-box” registration requirement rather than the critical ...
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