Five Australian universities have made the top 50 of the QS World University Rankings for 2017-18, with a further three in the top 100. ANU once again led the Australian pack. It recovered from its two-point slip last year to ...
More »Degree dump: latest attrition stats released
The who, where and why of higher education attrition have been revealed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the higher education regulator. Its report details the latest dropout rates (from 2014) for first-year students from 130 providers. The ...
More »Groundbreaking Monash study shows mums-to-be gaining too much weight
Researchers from Monash University's Faculty of Medicine have found that three-quarters of women either gain too much or too little weight during pregnancy, following the analysis of data gathered from more than 1 million mums-to-be around the globe. Their findings ...
More »UC cheers ACT Budget faculty funding fillip
The University of Canberra has received a boost from the 2017–18 ACT Budget – a $2.7 million allocation to establish a clinical school for nursing, midwifery and allied health. UC is currently in the midst of a healthcare faculty boom: it is ...
More »Strategic management platforms provide new ways to measure learning
How to improve education outcomes with strategic experience management platforms. Education is massively important to Australian society. As well as contributing significantly to our economy through the provision of employment, the education sector is Australia’s fourth largest export earner. Attracting ...
More »What keeps university leaders up at night?
I’m not at all confident that the university or anything like its current form will be here for even 20 years. Australia has too many universities for its population. So what is the biggest shaping force in Australian higher education? ...
More »Coming soon: Victoria University, India campus
Victoria University (VU) has had an eventful 2017 – and its only June. After slashing staff, and creating a separate teaching model for first years, a new research school and an academy for high-potential undergraduate students, they’re now opening a campus ...
More »USC shooting Australian animals on Fraser Island
The University of the Sunshine Coast is maximising its locus and propinquity to untouched wilderness and the fauna that resides within in a new hybrid course melding ecology and photography. It's called Animal Ecology and it's taught by USC lecturer ...
More »Academics collectively outraged by Trump’s climate apathy
The Australian university community has coalesced to tongue-lash United States President Donald Trump, following his announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, commonly known as the Paris climate accord. Signed by almost 200 UN climate body-member countries ...
More »USYD alumni help young women launch their careers
You probably wouldn't follow your careers advisor on Snapchat, but you might friend ENID Network. Sydney University graduates Nina Khoury (commerce and law) and Adriana Stefanatos (commerce) created the network: an all-female careers advice and networking platform for high school ...
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