With the demand for higher education booming worldwide, particularly in China and India, will universities be able to satisfy demand? And can Australia become a serious player in this expanding field? Our international education industry keeps expanding, which is good ...
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Victoria University has been accused of having a “manufactured deficit” to justify sweeping workforce restructures, a claim that university management has firmly denied. Paul Adams, president of the National Tertiary Education Union’s VU branch, said the 115 job losses that ...
More »OECD touts mums’ economic potential
You don’t often see a positive spin on unemployment figures. In this case, however, mums have cause to smile. The OECD has tipped them as the single largest potential contributor to Australia’s workforce. In a report, Connecting People with Jobs, ...
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This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Hannah Duncan has a law degree from Bond University and is about to start at the Administrative ...
More »Talking Eds episode 20: Labeling, triggering, mindfulness, pathway programs (and other neologisms)
It's time for episode 20 of Talking Eds! in this week's bumper edition the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at labeling’s adverse effect on children, whether mindfulness triggers past traumas and spar over Bond University's new pathways ...
More »How academics and corporates can learn from each other
Academia and the corporate sector are two worlds that can learn from one another. That’s the view of Dr Lesley Halliday, YourTutor’s general manager of academic services, who made the jump to a corporate career. Previously, she worked at Macquarie ...
More »Bond University College debuts to suit new cohort of heterogeneous would-be uni students
Catherine O’Sullivan is the pro vice-chancellor for pathways and partnerships at Bond University. In this role, O’Sullivan is overseeing the launch of Bond University College, an on-campus pathway program that brings together the existing university preparation and foundation programs, diplomas ...
More »Apprenticeship numbers keep falling
Trade apprenticeship numbers have continued their decline, new statistics from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research have shown, with the number of new apprentices plummeting. Between September 2015 and September 2016, trade apprenticeship numbers decreased by 4.7 per cent ...
More »Mindfulness may trigger past trauma in students
Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their students' backgrounds and not ...
More »Profile: USC’s high flying freshman has business and aviation acumen on the mind
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Lachlan Smart didn't party like you're average schoolie: he got behind the controls of an airplane and became ...
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