A leading private higher education provider has opened a new campus in the heart of Melbourne. The Australian School of Management’s new Flinders Street location will offer students a range of bachelor degrees, associate degrees and diplomas in business and ...
More »Young unis stride towards gender equity
Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...
More »UNE introduces mini-degrees
The University of New England has announced that prospective students will now be able to study individual undergraduate and postgraduate subjects under its new Bespoke Courses model. Announced this week, Bespoke Courses aims to cater for those who want to ...
More »UniMelb examines its historical legacy, starting with building names
Throughout the early twentieth century, anthropologist, biologist and zoologist Baldwin Spencer published several influential books that argued the case that Indigenous Australians were primitive and culturally inferior to the British. At the same time, he was a meticulous genealogist and ...
More »Uni funding peaks, VET funding plummets: Mitchell Institute
A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has shown that public VET spending has declined to its lowest level in 10 years. Expenditure on education and training in Australia showed that total taxpayer spending is now at $5.7 billion, ...
More »UC enters STEM education research partnership with Samsung
Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...
More »Funding distortions flagged for fixing by incoming Go8 chair
The incoming chair of Group of Eight has indicated he would like to see the funding distortions affecting disciplines like veterinary science, medicine, agriculture and dentistry to be corrected. Professor Peter Høj, who is also vice-chancellor of the University of ...
More »Teens prefer print over e-books: study
New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of a study from Deakin University and Murdoch University researchers found that three-quarters of 12- to 16-year-olds prefer to read paper ...
More »Philanthropy is essential for universities but not a replacement for public funding: UA
Senior university figures, along with federal education minister Simon Birmingham have been gathering in Melbourne this week to discuss how philanthropy can be increased and utilised as a financing option by higher education providers. As it stands, the Commonwealth – ...
More »Expert says VCs shouldn’t have to think like CEOs
What keeps vice-chancellors awake at night? If Dr Julie Rowlands, a Deakin University expert on higher-education governance and author of the book Academic Governance in the Contemporary University, is correct, it’s strategic planning, their institution’s reputation and the budget – ...
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