What exactly is a ‘pride chat’? With the launch of its new campaign, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) hopes all interested university parties will be able to answer that question. Raise Our Voice aims to spread awareness of the ...
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It could be the ‘super university’ that transforms the city of churches into the university city. Or, it could be a cost-cutting exercise. These are the headlines surrounding the potential University of South Australia-University of Adelaide merger. Yet, it is much more complicated than these extremes ...
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The fashion in universities and other public sector organisations for ‘shared services’ did not spring from nowhere. Yes Minister in the 1980s featured an episode about a hospital that had 500 administration staff, but could not afford to employ nurses ...
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With Australia’s international student numbers currently at a record high, many higher education providers are focused on how they can best support their students. In this article we’ll look at the importance of understanding what international students need and what ...
More »IRU says current funding model stifles innovation, calls for greater research autonomy
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group wants universities to have more say in how they spend their funding dollars. They say that universities only get to fully determine how a fifth of their endowment is spent. Raising the issue yesterday at the House of Representatives Inquiry ...
More »Black student calls out Oxford for lack of diversity
Malala’s bestie is everything you would think she would be. Oxford University student. Activist. Vlogger. Zimbabwean-born Varaidzo Kativhu aka Miss Varz, 20, from Birmingham in the UK is using her social media capital to try to increase diversity at her ...
More »The fight for free speech: a tale of two controversialists
The apparent battle for free speech being played out across our university campuses is difficult to navigate, with many competing viewpoints and intangible ideas at play. The so-called ‘chilling effect’ and other actions allegedly perpetrated by universities to stifle open ...
More »Unis are helping asylum seekers and refugees where the government isn’t
As a Master of Information Systems and Technology student at Curtin University, Muhammad Majid, 28, was so poor he couldn’t afford textbooks. He would either borrow them from the library – if they weren’t already borrowed by someone else, or ...
More »CTO Spotlight: How Stuart Hildyard is driving digital transformation to improve the staff and student experience at La Trobe University
“TechnologyOne SaaS has allowed us to be more innovative, so we can remain competitive”: Stuart Hildyard, Chief Technology Officer, La Trobe University La Trobe University Chief Technology Officer Stuart Hildyard has had a long, illustrious career in student and software ...
More »Education, customised to your genome, is coming
Personalised learning in schools is all the Gonksi-fueled rage, but what it if meant more than individualised learning plans and assessments? What if it meant mapping curricula to students’ genomes? This may sound like the plot of a sci-fi film; ...
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