Is compulsory vaccination coming to Australian post-secondary education – colleges, universities and the large (4.2 million students) vocational education and training sector? Yes, in some circumstances, given that it’s already here. Sadly, it looks like we in Australia (and certainly ...
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The University of Queensland’s Professor David Craik has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his outstanding contribution to science. Professor Craik is the second researcher from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience to be elected to the ...
More »ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021: Australia soars despite a difficult period
Shanghai Rankings has released its full list of academic subject rankings overnight, showing that Australia has a host of top-100, top-20 and top-10 subjects appearing in the rankings. Griffith University is the top-ranked Australian university coming in at number two ...
More »‘Good girls’ don’t ‘beat the odds’ in Australian universities: Marcia Devlin
The first thing to know about Professor Marcia Devlin’s forthcoming book Beating the Odds: A practical guide to navigating sexism in Australian universities is that it is a guide for “ambitious women” committed to systemic and long overdue change across ...
More »Independent international education providers obtain the lion’s share of funding
The Morrison government will provide than $50 million of targeted support for international student providers that have been worst affected by the pandemic border closures. The new measures wIll assist thousands of both domestic and international students, as well as ...
More »Independent education peak body releases its blueprint for tomorrow’s workforce
The peak body for independent providers in higher education, vocational education, training and skills sectors has just released its blueprint for a skilled and educated workforce of tomorrow. Titled Seven Priorities For A Skilled And Educated Workforce, the Independent Tertiary ...
More »Microbiologist with engaging, novel teaching approach receives coveted teacher of the year award
Associate Professor Jack Wang has taken out the prestigious Australian University Teacher of the Year award for 2020, with the University of Queensland microbiologist recognised for his novel approaches to teaching nurses and doctors about COVID-19 and medical hygiene. Part ...
More »The PC’s VET report card: no ‘crisis’ but ‘acknowledged weaknesses’ and ‘where to now’?
This article has two purposes. The first is to summarise the Productivity Commission’s Report on the National Skills and Workforce Development Agreement which has just been released with little fanfare in the heat haze of the summer holidays. As yet, there ...
More »Why some VET teachers need to receive vaccination priority: opinion
Aged care, disability and foundation skills Australian vocational education and training (VET) teachers need to receive priority status as Australia commences its vaccination roll-out next month. The success of our national economic recovery through skills and training may depend on it. The Australian Government ...
More »‘Freudianism and its discontents’ vs efforts inspired by love in overcoming the COVID-19 scourge
Gentle reader: During the past 24 hours while you slept you dreamt. You may not recall your dream but you did dream, or so say contemporary neurologists and scientists. For millennia there have been many treatises, tracts or plain ‘hocus ...
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