After more than a year of negotiations with the University of Sydney, vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence has written to the Ramsay Centre to propose an alternative program that would increase the number of students involved in studying Western civilisation and ...
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Former James Cook University academic and world-renowned expert in marine physics Professor Peter Ridd has started a GoFundMe page to cover legal costs needed to continue his fight against JCU’s unfair dismissal claim. In mid-April the Federal Circuit Court ordered ...
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Very few people can say they’re ‘the best in the world’ at anything, but for Charles Sturt University Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharynne McLeod, that’s exactly the case. A year after being named Australia’s leading researcher in her ...
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“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields From my own university experience, I figured Fields’ quote made a lot of sense: those who perform well ...
More »Who’s in demand? Australia’s MBA programs ranked
The University of Melbourne offers Australia’s best MBA program, if a ladder by an international education thinktank is to go by. QS Quacquarelli Symonds named Melbourne Business School 26th in the world, seeing it extend its lead from last year ...
More »New CREATE Centre wants all learning infused with creativity and the arts
The centrality of creativity and the arts to learning and the future of the workforce is the focus of a new centre launched this week at the University of Sydney by award-wining playwright Wesley Enoch, and attended by roughly 100 ...
More »‘Does it take a village?’ Community influence on university aspirations
Equal access to post-school pathways has been a focus of the government, perennially concerned about developing a robust future workforce to carry the nation forward. A more subtle aspect of this idea of equal access is equal aspiration. How attractive ...
More »Reimagining school to employment pathways: expert panel invites suggestions for 2020 report
A secondary school graduate steps out into the world today, and is confronted with an overwhelming array of choice. It’s not a simple fork in the road anymore, but a multitude of criss-crossing trails. Many will find themselves on pathways ...
More »We must fight again: Ridd vows to continue legal battle after JCU lodges appeal
James Cook University has decided to appeal a Federal Circuit Court decision that would see the university pay $1.2m in compensation to sacked professor Peter Ridd. As a result, Ridd took to his GoFundMe page to raise money to cover ...
More »Uni experts consider whether robots can really take over in the classroom
Concerns have taken hold that, in as little as 10 years, qualified teachers could be replaced by technology that is already performing many of the tasks ascribed to teachers, such as personalised learning activities, marking the roll and task-setting. But ...
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