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Advice from winners

Recipients of the ATEM/Campus Review honours draw on their management and leadership expertise to offer tips for success. The Australian Tertiary Education Management (ATEM)/Campus Review awards recently celebrated excellence in the areas of academic leadership and administration. The winners were ...

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11 unis win gender-equity citations

Eleven Australian universities were amongst just 76 organisations included in the national Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) inaugural Employer of Choice for Gender Equity citation list. The citations, which require organisations to submit evidence proving they meet a range of rigorous ...

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The sessional trap

Early-career researchers can face a tough and boggy road. Three ECRs discuss the pitfalls and opportunities facing junior academics. By Mark Chou, Jean-Paul Gagnon and Nicholas Osbaldiston Whichever way you look at it, the situation facing early-career academics is dire ...

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Reflective practice against racism

A leading educator has called for leveraging reflective practice as a way for Aboriginal nurses and midwives to navigate racism and find their way in their professions. Speaking at a recent conference held by the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses ...

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On payday, it’s what you study, not where

Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Australia’s prestigious sandstone and technology universities results in just 6 per cent higher earnings than other institutions over a 40-year career, research has shown. The analysis, Grattan Institute higher education director Andrew Norton released yesterday, indicates that ...

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anecdata and anecdota

Both anecdata and anecdota are cousins of anecdote, a 17th-century loanword from French that goes back to the Greek word anecdoton, meaning “something unpublished”. The earliest English citations have it in the plural form anecdota and glossed as “secret history/histories” ...

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Indigenous graduates’ pay gap shrinking at the top

The earnings of Indigenous Australian university graduates appear to be nearly on par with their non-Indigenous colleagues, according to fresh data analysis by a University of Western Australia researcher. Based on data from Graduate Careers Australia’s annual Graduate Destinations surveys ...

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The search for a leg up

With so many graduates taking longer to find full-time work, Campus Review asks what recruiters want and how institutions can help students get it. A recent Graduate Careers Australia survey indicated a historical high in the number of new graduates ...

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Google

The term google has become so familiar – both as the proprietary name of the Internet search engine and as the act of searching on it – that it’s easy to disregard what a strange word it is. The company’s ...

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Programs target apprenticeship completions

VET sector groups have welcomed new federal government initiatives aimed at improving apprenticeship completion rates. Under the arrangements set to begin from July next year, the government will provide $200 million a year to the newly announced Australian Apprenticeship Support Network, which ...

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