A global news agency holds our universities in high research esteem, but not as high as those from South Korea, Japan and China. Monash University – the top Australian institution to place in the Reuters 2018 ranking of the Asia Pacific’s ...
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Against a backdrop of high-profile junior doctor suicides, Flinders University is introducing novelty into its medical degree. The Adelaide-based institution is piloting a music subject for second-year students, as part of the degree's new, mandatory personal and professional development stream. Its coordinators hope ...
More »Alma no matter: university choice barely impacts grad salaries
You know a paper is almost certainly ethically clean when it undermines its affiliated institutions' business models. Notwithstanding the fact that two of its authors work at Go8 member UNSW, Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia? finds it ...
More »How the other third live: experiences of Chinese women studying in Australia
I never got to know Angel*. She would appear in my journalism class sporadically, and when she did, always sat by herself. She never spoke in class, unless spoken to by the lecturer. Then, she would reply in broken English, ...
More »TEQSA to assess student wellbeing
For the first time, higher education providers will be assessed for registration renewal purposes on their provision of student support services. The additional standards, which came into effect in 2017, were largely a response to the Human Rights Commission's report on sexual harassment ...
More »VU extends ‘block model’ to all degrees
Victoria University is so pleased with its 'block model' – whereby one subject is taught at a time – that is it extending this university-wide. From this year, it was only applied to first-year subjects. By 2020, both undergraduate and ...
More »Hopeful and marginalised: migrant youths share their thoughts and feelings
We hear about their extreme highs and lows, but we don’t often hear the everyday thoughts of migrant and refugee young people in Australia. Not every one is a Duckie Thot or the victim of an unprovoked attack. There are Muhammads, ...
More »The Aussie academic who monitors Timor-Leste’s elections, and why they matter for us
Yesterday, Xanana Gusmão's Alliance of Change for Progress (AMP) – an opposition coalition – clinched election victory in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor). Gusmão, Timor-Leste's first and fourth Prime Minister, is commonly viewed as a national hero, due to his resistance ...
More »ANU overhauls admissions, will now actively recruit ‘top’ students
In a week, ANU's media image has transformed from scandalous to sweet. The university has just unveiled a new undergraduate admissions process, intended to enhance ‘educational opportunity’. The process, first announced by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Marnie Hughes-Warrington in her blog, ...
More »England forges ahead with uni commercialisation
Amid the global, pre-Royal Wedding fervour, the English government made significant higher education reforms. First, on 1 January this year, it founded the Office for Students (OfS): a new university watchdog. Then, in mid-February, it announced the "biggest shake-up to higher ...
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