Federal Labor has announced an election plan that would create a new tier of higher education – one that looks strikingly similar to the college system universities absorbed 25 years ago. Shadow minister for higher education Kim Carr has announced that Labor ...
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The internet has exploded with reactions, ranging from vitriolic to darkly comedic, in the wake of Stanford University's Brock Turner being sentenced to only six months in jail – of which he'll probably serve only three – for penetrating an unconscious female student behind a ...
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In Episode 3 of APN Educational Media's weekly review podcast, Talking Eds, James Wells from Education Review and Campus Review and Loren Smith from Early Learning Review join me, news editor Patrick Avenell, to chat about the effectiveness of smoking ...
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Principals directly affect exam results: study
University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli and colleagues found that principals who set clear ...
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Academic recalcitrance and institutional rivalry could kill the joint University of Melbourne-Monash University commercialisation fund for biomedical research before it even properly begins, one of the brains behind the program has warned. Monash and UniMelb are rivals in the battle ...
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