You can always tell an Oxbridge graduate. How? They tell us, of course. This is not a mere ancient educational establishment. It may be the 21st century, but Oxbridge is still considered a class bastion of white, privately educated, wealthy ...
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The COVID-19 travel restrictions on China, which started in Australia on February 1, have put a lot of pressure on Australia’s university system, which relies heavily on Chinese students to sustain both world-class teaching and research. With Chinese students away, ...
More »Tackling IT challenges amid campus closures: opinion
With Australian universities facing the prospect of closure as a result of the growing COVID-19 crisis, management and staff are actively reviewing their ability to deliver services remotely. Rather than sitting in crowded lecture theatres or attending group discussions, students ...
More »Data scientists with hybrid skills most in demand in marketing departments
You may not think it, but soft skills such as intuition and creativity are as important for data scientists as technical skills. In this information age, organisations today have unprecedented volumes of data at their fingertips, providing incredible opportunities for ...
More »Women firies doing their bit: opinion
While images of bone-weary male firefighters collapsed on the ground fill our screens and social media platforms, lesser known are the valiant efforts of women who are independently fighting the fires on their own doorstep. "Everyone thinks of the men, ...
More »Burning questions: Will we choose transformation and sustainability or apocalypse?
It is noteworthy how far we have come in defining and shaping a concept of engagement. Universities in Australia are helping to build the future, in partnership with others across the globe also, as part of a new economic and ...
More »Forget the old model: Modern universities need to turn outwards to thrive
There still exists an idealised conception of the university. It’s what makes international rankings plausible, because everybody thinks they know what a university should be and therefore can compare them. In that conception, research is well supported and academics are ...
More »How curriculum change and a new academic structure can provide a contemporary edge
Back in September 2017, Campus Review highlighted changes being made in the humanities and social science areas at the University of Newcastle, which involved the development of a new structure built around four multidisciplinary ‘clusters’. Aligning organisational changes to the ...
More »Monash podcast series offers suggestions on how to avoid ‘dystopian’ future
After the dystopian futures predicted in the television series The Handmaids Tale and Huxley’s classic Brave New World, Monash University has launched a new podcast series called What Happens Next? which posits that such tales are becoming uncomfortably similar to the reality ...
More »Quality teaching the key to deterring contract cheating: a student’s perspective
A few months ago I came across a disturbing leaflet at my university campus that promised completed assignments with a fee of 50 euro per page. It assured to erase the stress of students having to spend time on homework, as ...
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