Co-working spaces are shared workspaces and have become a striking and very visible feature of metropolitan areas. They have proliferated and are growing fast around the globe in almost every continent, embraced not only by remote workers, start-up employees and ...
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The wheels are still moving on an Australian pilot of a classification system that recognises university success beyond academic rankings. Charles Sturt University and University of Technology Sydney last year announced they will lead a pilot of the Carnegie Community ...
More »Productivity Commission questions demand-driven university model
The demand-driven university system is having mixed results on student performance and outcomes, a new Productivity Commission report has found. While the report found the new system has increased student numbers – particularly students from low socio-economic backgrounds – it ...
More »Shaping sticky students: encouraging lifelong academic relationships in an era of transience
To members of other generational groups, millennials and GenZ are often seen as inconsistent or flighty; too quick to move on when they don’t like a job and lacking the apparently in-built ‘loyalty’ of the generations that precede them. Deserved ...
More »Weekly roundup 4: Staring down the gift horse, Ramsay Centre misconceptions and Victoria University’s fresh approach
Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our fourth weekly roundup. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. Our most popular story by far this week was the University of Alabama’s ...
More »Alabama uni returns $21.5 million gift, denies it’s due to donor’s abortion stance
The University of Alabama has denied that its decision to return a gift of $21.5 million had to do with the donor’s views on abortion. Hugh Culverhouse Jr pledged to donate $26.5 million over four years and was $5 million ...
More »Dispelling the myths of the Ramsay Centre
Established in March 2017 through a bequest by the Ramsay Foundation, the Ramsay Centre’s objective is to reinvigorate the study of Western civilisation in Australia. The Centre aims to have its program taught in two to three universities initially, mainly ...
More »Strictly speaking | spruik
It sometimes takes a while for dictionaries to catch up with usage. One of the latest additions to the Oxford English Dictionary online is the transitive sense of the verb spruik, ‘to talk about or promote/publicise something’, to add to ...
More »How educators can keep up with the fast pace of industry change: an NDIS case study
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is an ambitious and much needed undertaking. By 2020, 460,000 people will participate in the scheme. That’s roughly one in every 40 Australians. The NDIS will give people with a disability choice and control ...
More »EduTECH 2019: How analytics and AI are closing the ‘feedback loop’
Analytics and AI are combining to provide fantastic insights into “student learning and progress”. While today's learning platforms can provide basic feedback on, say, how much of text a student has read or whether they have completed a section of ...
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