The recent Times Higher Education world rankings (THE) 2022 marks the final of the main three rankings for the year, the other two being QS and Academic Ranking of World Universities. What does the THE 2022 tell us? At the ...
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The influential Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 have been released, with 12 Australian Universities making the top 200. The rankings take in over 1,600 institutions across 99 countries and is measured on 13 performance indicators that measure an ...
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The competition to enrol new students has continually pushed tertiary institutions to strengthen their future student teams – to listen and take a more consultative approach. With continual COVID disruptions, the competition has now got tougher. Indeed, high performing customer ...
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Professor Mia Lindgren is the Dean of Swinburne University of Technology's School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education. She spoke to Campus Review about how many arts-related skills, including critical thinking, innovation and problem solving appeared at the top ...
More »Dianne Jolley: former professor fighting to avoid jail for crimes
A former high-ranking academic at a Sydney university is fighting to avoid ending up in jail after she was found guilty of masterminding a mystifying hate mail campaign targeting herself that caused the institution to stump up for a ring of security ...
More »Uni profits plummet by $1.6bn to $669 million in 2020
A new report from the Mitchell Institute finds that Australian university profits took a nosedive in 2020, dropping $1.6 billion to just $669 million. Nearly half of Australian unis reported a loss and most struggled to break even. Only three ...
More »Deakin to lose 200 jobs, fears a second wave of job losses to come
Deakin university will axe up to 200 staff as the university goes through another round of redundancies. Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Martin announced a plan to cut between 180-220 jobs as the pandemic continues to bite into the sector's bottom ...
More »Flinders academics hope Canada’s effort to review wrongful convictions will encourage Australia ‘to take note’
Two legal academics from Flinders University say Canada’s ongoing push to create an independent body to review wrongful convictions highlights significant shortcomings in Australia’s legal system. Both lawyers and Adjunct Associate Professors from the university’s college of business, government and ...
More »HEDx Podcast – The best of times, the worst of times – Episode 35
Sandra Harding, as Australia's current longest serving VC of a single Australian university at JCU in Townsville, joins the HEDx team. She reflects on how the sector's leaders and staff are feeling and of the culture change that is needed for ...
More »‘Gut instinct’ plays a part in the spread of pandemic misinformation: new study
New research from the Australian National University has found that individuals who base their thinking on “first instincts” are more likely to believe and share misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 misinformation has appeared and been shared since the beginning ...
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