Victoria University has confirmed that 115 jobs will be cut throughout the year as it establishes its planned First Year College. VU provost and deputy vice-chancellor professor Kerri-Lee Krause said 115 staff members “will exit the university over the course ...
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Bond University's Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice has published a paper in Annals of Family Medicine that details how parents vastly overestimate the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat childhood maladies. The paper's senior author, professor of clinical epidemiology Tammy Hoffmann, ...
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For Andy Sheats, improving the student experience is tied to greater transparency in higher education. Recently announced as Open Universities Australia’s new executive general manager of student experience, Sheats wants to use data to help students make their study choices. ...
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What is innovation? According to the editor of a new report calling for the modernisation of higher education, this is a question the sector is yet to answer. Dr Rod Gutierrez, director of higher education strategy at business consultancy Lee ...
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Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going on to work for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the precursor of the CSIRO. She was a staunch political ...
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Michael Evans is the managing director of Dell Boomi, a cloud-based integration company that brings together the student and faculty data developed and stored in various apps and programs and across desktop and mobile devices. Evans joined Campus Review to ...
More »University education set to cost even more: ASG
The cost of going to university has risen dramatically and is set to inflate even further, new research from the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has shown. The ASG Planning for University Index, which modeled the rising costs of higher education ...
More »Australia’s rust belts could host the ‘smartest places on earth’
Converting rust belts into brain belts. That’s how Dutch economist and author Antoine van Agtmael describes the process of transitioning a nation’s economy from an uncompetitive manufacturing or resources base to one that thrives off the products developed by a ...
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“If you're a straight person, you don't actually have to come out and tell a person that you're straight.” But if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer, it’s a different story. That’s how Mark Smith, executive officer to ...
More »UniMelb looks at the future of higher education in new Vision essay collection
Richard James is the director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. The Centre has released a new essay collection titled Visions for Australian Tertiary Education, coedited by James with colleagues Sarah ...
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