In the wake of the Brexit referendum and economic pessimism in Britain, an optimistic commentator in the EU-based Politico was forecasting a boomlet for financial consultants and lobbyists in London and Brussels. A boomlet? Is that a ‘real’ word or ...

Australia’s competitiveness in the future international marketplace and ability to cope with digital disruption will depend largely on the VET sector delivering STEM training to the workforce, a new report has argued. The report, The VET Era: Equipping Australia’s workforce for ...

Research suggests staff cynicism about vice-chancellor pushes for gender equity could perpetuate inequity. Professor Isabel Metz, from the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School, has gone into businesses and examined executives’ attitudes towards gender equity. She found many leaders are reluctant to publicly speak about the ...

New terms are constantly being created to label demographic groups, often by marketers wanting to target them. These terms are commonly formed using acronyms – as in the examples dinky (dual income no kids yet), kippers (kids in parents pockets ...

It’s not just the university executives who want to change their institutions' business models; the rank-and-file academics want to do so, too. But they’re hampered by cumbersome university infrastructure that slows the pace of change to a crawl, an expert ...

Enforcement of the 38-hour working week and providing two days a week of subsidised childcare for all parents are among a series of workforce recommendations made by a national network of public policy experts from 16 universities. These recommendations, tabled ...

The distractions that tempt us whenever we turn on a device with an internet connection are boundless. We’re immediately bombarded with an array of apps, email and Facebook notifications, advertising pop-ups and clickbait. This sensory overload is the motivation behind ...

One of the women spearheading the push for gender equity in science will soon direct the University of New South Wales’ research strategy. Professor Emma Johnston – marine ecologist, science broadcaster and prominent advocate for gender equity – will add ...

This unusual word was borrowed from Japanese less than 20 years ago for a special out-of-focus effect that up-to-date photographers may strive to achieve rather than avoid. In Japanese, the word is written as boke, but said with two-syllables (bow-kay) ...

Another round of job cuts and changes to enterprise agreements at TAFE New South Wales have been foreshadowed ahead of the new managing director’s modernisation push. Jon Black, who stepped into the role in December last year, told Campus Review the ...