Australia’s international education services export income hit a record $17.6 billion in 2014, the latest ABS data has revealed. Releasing the new figures this week, the education minister, Christopher Pyne, said the results indicated that about $600 million of the $17.6 ...
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Online learning breaks down barriers to education giving people who may not have accessed higher education a chance to study off campus and at their own pace. This is according to David-Jack Fletcher, an online teacher at Swinburne Online, who ...
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Technology is changing the way educational intuitions will deliver learning now and in the future, a technology leader in the tertiary education sector says. In an exclusive interview, Peter Nikoletatos, executive director and chief information officer at La Trobe University ...
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The competition for funding dollars is intense; the sector needs to do a better job of showing the public the benefits of investment in science. By Deborah Terry The federal Budget announcement of continued NCRIS funding for two more years ...
More »Lomborg searches for think tank host
Bjorn Lomborg has led the search for a home for his taxpayer-funded Australian think tank. The federal government decided more than a year ago it would help Lomborg set up a think tank based on the model used at his ...
More »Multi-modal learning is the future: Burruss
In an exclusive interview we spoke to Laurie Burruss, educational consultant at Lynda.com about the need to empower students with multimodal learning. “I was really trying to make a call to the educators in the room… to think how are ...
More »Technology to remake unis by 2020
Virtual reality classrooms, wearable technologies and the use of metadata to identify struggling students will revolutionise the way Australia’s university students learn, new research forecasting future technology trends states. The research, by Open Universities Australia (OUA) and global not-for-profit group ...
More »Public scrutiny improves policy
The difference in how two Labor governments handled criticism of programs shows how bringing problems to light leads to better reform. By John Mitchell Just one glance at the policy failures in the VET sector suggests there is eminent sense ...
More »Tobacco laws to make Tas healthiest state: academics
Cigarettes will be "so last century" in Tasmania if laws are extended to prevent the sale of tobacco to people born after the year 2000, health experts say. Tasmania's current laws already prevent the sale of tobacco to people born ...
More »Australia loses ground in world rankings
Higher education sector leaders have blamed inadequate funding for the “concerning downward trend” of Australia’s international ranking in the annual Universitas 21 list. In the rankings, released last week, Australia is now 10th in the world. Singapore overtook Australia, which is down one spot from ninth in 2014 ...
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