The final report of the national VET review, “Strengthening Skills: Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System” (Joyce Review) has just been published, and its early stage recommendations have been comprehensively adopted within the announced national budget. A ...
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Internet reacts to black hole image in the way that it does
Scientists released the first ever captured image of a black hole and the internet reacted in ways that might surprise no one. Earlier this week, the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a planet-scale array of eight ground-based ...
More »Union takes Supreme Court action on UOW over Ramsay Centre degree
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is taking the University of Wollongong and its vice chancellor Professor Paul Wellings to the Supreme Court over the approval process used to create its Ramsay Centre degree. The union lodged a claim in ...
More »Great expectations: helping students weighed down by the pressure to succeed
Final year school students and university undergraduates are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University ...
More »‘Cooked, racist’: Griffith course to be led by Indigenous teachers following student complaint
A student at Griffith University has called out a professor for promoting a colonial version of history in a first-year Indigenous Studies class. The complaint has prompted Griffith to change the method of the course's delivery. In a 729-word public post on ...
More »Almost half of uni students don’t think they’re getting value for money
New research has revealed that almost half of university students don't believe their degree is worth the money it costs, despite most believing that completing a degree will help secure their dream job. The biggest concern, according to the research ...
More »‘Receive the changing voices’: the place of poetry in our digital age
When was the last time you read a poem? For many of us not currently involved in the teaching, study or creation of literature our answer might well be when we were finishing school, or during our undergrad days at ...
More »University student to sue Mark Latham over tweets
A Sydney university student wrongly accused of terrorism offences says he is suing Mark Latham for defamation, claiming tweets by the One Nation candidate "gravely injured" his character and reputation. Mohamed Kamer Nilar Nizamdeen was charged in August 2018 with ...
More »US universities considering expelling students in scam
The University of Southern California says it may expel students tied to a US college-admissions scam after reviewing their records. The school said it has already "placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged ...
More »Opinion: what a local and an international scandal suggest about education inequality
On Monday, ABC chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous for her supposed anti-Liberal bias, she provoked the opposite kind of ire by asking for people's “…stories about living ...
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