The nation’s most powerful bureaucrat has challenged the long-term direction of Commonwealth higher education policy which led to Australian universities being very large by world standards, highly reliant on international students for revenue and facing growing financial risk. In a ...
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University students who complete community placements modules in their degrees have more empathy than those who study only theory, new research has found. A new systematic review by the Australian Catholic University found that students who completed community placement during ...
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Better partnerships between universities and schools will be needed to strengthen Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and ensure future teachers stay on the job long-term. According to Australian Catholic University's Dean of Education Professor Mary Ryan, one of the major issues ...
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Despite significant differences, the challenges shaping higher education in the US, UK, and Australia are decidedly similar. Triggered by global phenomena—including the war for talent, global skills shortages from changes in work practices, international migration, and new expectations and appetites ...
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Graduates of Curtin University are most preferred by employers, according to the federal government’s latest 2022 survey results, with employing organisations asked to rate the quality of the graduates they hire. With an employer satisfaction rate of 89.7 per cent, ...
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The University of Melbourne recorded a $203 million deficit in 2022, despite posting record-breaking surpluses over the past two years. On Thursday, the University of Melbourne released its financial results for the end of 2022, where it finished with $203 ...
More »The AI revolution in higher education: opinion
Generative artificial intelligence is a growing branch of AI which helps with generating new and original content. ChatGPT, the word-of-mouth generative AI these days, is a language model created by Open AI that uses algorithms to produce human-like answers to ...
More »USYD staff vote to continue strikes
Staff at the University of Sydney have voted to continue rolling industrial action marking the longest-running strike campaign seen in any Australian university. On Friday, staff from the university formed picket lines in front of the university's Camperdown campus marking ...
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The University of the Sunshine Coast Sippy Downs campus was named Australia's happiest university by an artificial intelligence program that analysed students' Instagram pictures. The analysis used an AI recognition tool that measured levels of emotion in human faces to ...
More »Monash University records $78.3m deficit in 2022 after Covid surpluses
Monash University crashed into deficit last year and expects another deficit in 2023 after recording healthy surpluses in the first two years of the Covid pandemic. In a message to staff last Friday vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner said the university’s 2022 ...
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