The US has dominated a recent ranking of millionaire producing universities, and Australia is nowhere in sight. Business analysis website Verdict and GlobalData WealthInsight teamed up to publish the rankings, which looked at which universities around the world produced the ...
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With rising costs of living and university fees set to hike next year, universities are under pressure to find ways to appeal to the Gen Z market. So what attracts the attention of our future university students? As traditional marketing ...
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International students contribute $19 billion to the Australian economy every year, but only 34 per cent of workplaces are hiring them. In light of these figures, Melbourne-based startup Outcome.Life has launched a campaign to highlight the strengths of international students ...
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The VET in Schools (VETiS) program has a high success rate of putting students in jobs, a new study has found. Conducted by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the study found that five years after participating in ...
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A record number of education professionals convened in Melbourne for the annual Tertiary Education Management Conference this week. More than 900 professional managers of tertiary education attended conference sessions over several days, drawing wisdom, research results and industry ideas from ...
More »Australia’s tertiary professionals awarded for best practice
Australia's most valued educators have been recognised at the ATEM / Campus Review Best Practice Awards. Now in its sixth year, the awards were held at the Arts Centre Melbourne on Monday night and rewarded more than 60 professional managers of tertiary education for ...
More »Curtin creates cyber security software
A new cyber shield developed by experts at Curtin University aims to prevent future computer hacking, such as the attack on the Census website recently. The defensive software, called the Probability Engine for Identifying Malicious Activity (PEMIA) uses statistics to identify ...
More »Qld academics among best in nation
Nine academics from Queensland have been named among the nation's best educators at university level. The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) academics were each recognised as part of the prestigious 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching recently. Associate Professor ...
More »Flinders applauds first Indigenous Australian archaeology doctorate
Flinders University student Christopher Wilson will become the first Indigenous Australian to graduate with a PhD in Archaeology, at a graduation ceremony to be held today. During his studies, Dr Wilson - who identifies as a Ngarrindjeri man - discovered new ...
More »ACT and NSW educators recognised for innovation
Some of the finest university educators in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory have been recognised for their innovation as part of the Australian Awards for University Teaching. A total of 22 awards were presented to 10 universities ...
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