The experienced Shiva Kumar is an expert in a strategic position at LinkedIn Australia and New Zealand, where he is focused on providing specialised leadership in communication, whilst being passionate about the successful use of creative expression in excellent job applications. Unlike ...
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The Australian private tutoring industry has now been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came ...
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Restoring the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program and including sub-degree loans in the demand-driven system are two of the priorities for the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group’s new chair, professor Colin Stirling. This puts the IRU – a network ...
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Professor Linda Shields from Charles Sturt University is a specialist in nursing ethics. She has co-written a book on the role of nurses in Nazi Germany’s forced euthanasia programs and recently authored an opinion paper on the role of nurses ...
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Three vice-chancellors have been recognised today by being inducted into the Order of Australia. University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence will now have AC after his name as a Companion of the Order of Australia. Spence received the honour ...
More »UniMelb releases sustainability plan
The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021, and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund. Allan Tait, UniMelb chief financial ...
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For entrepreneur Bevis Cheng, failure is much more interesting than success. “It really shapes the way you think about things, the way you approach things, what you could do differently, what you could do better,” Cheng says. “I mean everybody ...
More »Talking Eds, episode 19: adopted babies recalling languages, international student destinations, non-completion rates and mentoring
In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...
More »USYD welcomes Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander students into mentorships
The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Students in Year 9 and 10 are part of the Wingara Mura program while those in Year 11 ...
More »Vann staying at CSU, retaining med school focus
Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor professor Andrew Vann has renewed his contract and will stay at the helm until 2021. For his next term, Vann said he'd ensure CSU added value to the communities it was a part of. This meant, ...
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