Contract cheating refers to students outsourcing their assessments to professional cheating services or through arrangements with friends or peers. A typical example would be a student paying for an essay which is then submitted as their own work. As classroom ...

Parents routinely roll their eyes any time a school announces a student-free professional learning day for its teachers. Many parents consider these days an inconvenience and struggle to see their purpose. High quality, continuous professional learning (as opposed to one-off, snapshot professional ...

The nursing clinical placement is an essential part of the nursing degree and is an opportunity to solidify clinical knowledge and to get real life exposure to clinical settings. For almost all students, the transition from university-based learning to the ...

How many of you still remember that teacher of your college days who had more to offer than just nondescript, soporific lectures – that teacher who held your attention throughout class with humour and levity? I’m sure many of you ...

Students who feel engaged with their courses and institutions are more likely to succeed and less likely to drop out; key considerations for providers in Australia’s competitive vocational and higher education sector. So, how can providers leverage digital technology to ...

Unlike the African-Americans who have recently received their own museum at the gateway to the prestigious Smithsonian museums in Washington and the American Indians who have their own Museum of the American Indian, we have still to see a standalone ...

RMIT University recently held a special event to celebrate its 131st birthday, entitled Will Robots Eat our Jobs? The event featured Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean and a panel of experts discussing what the future of jobs might be in a world ...

Thanks to the rise of online education, tertiary institutions are finding it harder to entice students back on campus. Rather than bemoaning the trend, some universities are deploying designers to transform their campuses into thriving, dynamic communities that satisfy students’ ...

The concept of graduate employability has become one of utmost importance and concern for universities and their students in Australia and beyond, and yet, despite the ever-increasing resources and energy being poured into ensuring that employability is achieved through a ...

The context to any contemporary discussion on student learning and pedagogy is the exponential growth in the influence of the internet over the past 40 years. Subsequently, we must note “the importance of an intentional approach to using the internet ...