A new report shows that to simply maintain current participation rates in higher education and VET, both sectors will need rapid enrollment growth throughout the coming years. Participation rates, in this context, refers to the proportion of people who are either ...
More »HECS architect says student loan threshold could be lowered
Two higher education policy heavyweights have found unlikely common ground. HECS architect Bruce Chapman and the Grattan Institute’s Andrew Norton have agreed that the tertiary student loan threshold could be lowered. Norton, Grattan Institute higher education program director, is pushing ...
More »Dropbox launches spin-off for education sector
Dropbox has expanded its business-to-business branch, launching Dropbox Education. Charlie Wood, country manager of Dropbox Australia and New Zealand, said, overall, this product is similar to Dropbox Business, there are tweaks to attract education staff to the product. “Dropbox Education ...
More »Teach creativity, don’t measure it: educator
You can’t measure creativity, nor the soft skills needed to thrive in jobs and tertiary education, so education should end its obsession with measurement and ranking, a senior educator has argued. Meredith Melville-Jones, director of Sydney’s Bradfield Senior College, said ...
More »UC residential development part of integrated vision
A total of 3300 residences, with an estimated value of $1.7 billion, are set to be built by the University of Canberra on campus property within the next two decades. It's part of an ambitious project aimed at re-imagining how a ...
More »Marijuana’s PR problem a factor in declining usage among young Australians: UQ study
Megan Weier is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland's School of Psychology. She recently took the lead in researching drug use among young Australians across a 16-year period, from 1998 to 2013. Every three years, 14-to-25-year-olds were surveyed ...
More »STEM degrees don’t guarantee jobs, wealth
Despite the opening pages of the hot-off-the-press Good Careers Guide preaching STEM and all its glories – the guide’s education chief urged students to pursue careers they're passionate about, even if they aren't STEM-related. The Good Careers Guide is the replacement ...
More »WSU’s Glover says more jobs in Western Sydney can help ease traffic
Call it a budding innovation ecosystem, or an education turf war. Either way, universities have their sights set on Sydney’s west. But the vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University has argued the incoming education boom could be brought to a bumper-to-bumper ...
More »VICE, UTS partner to train media students
While print revenues shrivel as traditional media struggle to understand this thing called the internet, online magazine VICE has embraced it, and is omnipresent throughout millennials’ Facebook feeds. Now the largely 20-something class of 2016 communications cohort at the University ...
More »‘We hope for not taking away old things’: USQ VC and RUN chair’s withering assessment of politically astute budget
Jan Thomas is the vice-chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland, based at its Toowoomba campus, and the chair of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), comprising Central Queensland University, Federation Universities Australia, Southern Cross University, University of New England, University ...
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