A greater understanding of the student experience will help higher education institutions attract and retain students, education experts told the 2009 Student Engagement Forum recently. The forum, hosted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and La Trobe University ...
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Universities needed more money: Hockey The Howard government should have acted earlier to establish its big infrastructure funds, including the Higher Education Endowment Fund, according to shadow treasurer Joe Hockey. “If we had our time again, I would better explain ...
More »Silver lining in Senate delay: UA
Universities may have to wait beyond first semester next year before they can start charging the new services and amenities fee, with the enabling legislation still before the Senate. But the peak universities body believes that while the delay will ...
More »International students safer than locals: stats
International students are substantially less likely than domestic Australians to die from accidents and violence, if recent newspaper reports highlighting deaths of foreign students are correct. Fairfax papers reported last Wednesday that at least 54 international students had died in ...
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Australian governments will develop a “comprehensive” international student strategy to improve international students’ experience of Australia “and benefit all of Australian society”, according to a communiqué issued after last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin. The strategy will address issues including ...
More »Another VET compact announced – but will it deliver the goods?
The government will offer all workers retrenched since January a guaranteed training place, not just to those aged 20 to 24 as previously announced. The measure is an additional compact added to the raft of entitlements and targets it has ...
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Griffith appoints sustainability expertnd where he was a professor of human security and sustainable enterprise and director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security. Iverson appointed to UOW The University of Wollongong has appointed Professor Don Iverson to ...
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Australia is the latest country to be targeted by an international initiative that plans to help indigenous children learn. Beverley Head reports.ware and educational applications, the laptops can be connected to the internet if telecommunications services are available in the ...
More »COAG education plan may cut indigenous adults adrift
School education is the success story in indigenous education, with slow but steady improvement in Year 12 completion rates, according to the ‘2009 overcoming indigenous disadvantage: key indicators report’ released at last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin.o a report released ...
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By surveying its economic impact, James Cook University has turned around community understanding. By Ben Power.) – 1.76 for Townsville and 2.3 for Cairns. “To put it in relative terms, it’s probably one of the strongest impacts in multiplier terms ...
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