Last month, former Education Minister Craig Emerson termed university a "civilising experience". He wasn't wrong. In a world-first, researchers from the University of Sydney have empirically established that this kind of education indeed develops people's social skills. University Education and Non-cognitive ...
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As Professor Deb Verhoeven spoke at Universities Australia's 2018 Higher Education Conference, some men shuffled out of the vast auditorium. Although she wasn't sure if it was because of her speech or the need for the bathroom or a snack, it was ...
More »Measuring success: how can we help teachers to help themselves?
The Teaching Teams trial promises teacher education students and their supervisors a new approach to self-reflection and assessment. With the current push for new teachers who are ‘classroom ready’, it’s no wonder our teacher education students, teachers and schools are ...
More »Hundreds of uni staff share how they stress less
“Former senior lecturer in my area was promoted to HoS and I have moved into the courses formerly taught by her and have been able to drop many other ‘bits and pieces’ of teaching i.e., rationalisation of courses taught” - ...
More »Academics hunt for the wilderwomen
Adventurer Bear Grylls, of Man vs. Wild fame, was first praised, then scorned for his 'tough guy' persona. All the while, most people hadn't heard of Megan Hine. The fair-skinned, doe-eyed fellow Brit was once described by Grylls as "stronger than 99 per ...
More »Student smartphone obsession? There’s an app for even that
If you were promised free coffee or movie tickets in exchange for phone downtime, would you take the bait? A Danish company knows at least university students will. Its free app, Hold, is already used by 120,000 students in Denmark, Norway and ...
More »WSU designs bionic voice for cancer survivors
Researchers from Western Sydney University have created a game changer in the global field of electronic voice research, which will be applied to help cancer survivors. For the first time, researchers have confirmed that prosthetics can generate a high-quality human-sounding ...
More »‘Diet genes’ not a thing: Stanford University
In 2007 (not 1986, as the cover would have you believe), Pamela McDonald and Wayne Dyer's book, The Gene Diet, was first published. Despite its sensational-sounding subtitle – Use Your Body's Own APO E Gene to Treat High Cholesterol, Weight Problems, ...
More »The University of Toxicity: Managerialism and the rise of Professor Toxic (part 1)
Managerialism, academic capitalism and the rise of Professor Toxic. It will come as no shock to readers of Campus Review that the tertiary education sector has dramatically changed over the past two decades. Universities now more closely resemble the corporate ...
More »Google as a cancer control tool: USC, QUT
The University of the Sunshine Coast and Queensland University of Technology scientists have found what they call a "surprising link" between Google searches about melanoma and the number of confirmed cases. The team of researchers collaborated with the Cancer Council ...
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