Universities should give more consideration to female academics caring for children, a new paper has argued. One way they could be doing this is by offering financial aid to cover childcare costs for those attending conferences. Another recommendation was that institutions ...
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The main goal of our universities and TAFE colleges is arguably to make students job-ready. Likewise, from the students’ perspective, faith that time and money they invest into getting themselves up-skilled is going to pay-off shortly is instrumental in motivating ...
More »The uneconomic case for fine arts departments
Think of a famous sculpture. Are you picturing Michelangelo’s David or Rodin's The Thinker? Or perhaps you’re more of a modernist, and you’re imagining Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog or Maman by Louise Bourgeois. For art students, however, Alex Martinis Roe’s To Become ...
More »Do grads and employers really disparage degrees? Depends on who you ask
2018 is barely a week old, and already there's debate concerning the tertiary education sector: this time, over the results of the 2017 Employer Satisfaction Survey. On the one hand, Universities Australia (UA) found the survey of recent graduates and their employers heartening. They pointed ...
More »Deakin and UniMelb have some STEM suggestions
If Harry Styles says it, it must be true. "How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future," he told Rolling Stone magazine earlier this year. The Invergowrie Foundation - a charitable trust aimed at advancing girls' ...
More »IT isn’t the most in-demand job: report
Contrary to popular thought, it's construction, not coding, that's most in-demand by employers. The 2017 Soft Skills in Demand Report, released last week, revealed this surprising fact. Report issuer JobGetter analysed 168,000 job ads across 54 industries before reaching this ...
More »Hope and ambition collide at STEM careers fair
Rihanna’s latest hit reverberated around the brick atrium of the National Innovation Centre, home to Cicada Innovations. The reason for the hip beats? 'Emerge': Cicada and government department UrbanGrowth NSW’s inaugural STEM careers expo. Backpack-clad students wandered from booth to ...
More »USYD alumni help young women launch their careers
You probably wouldn't follow your careers advisor on Snapchat, but you might friend ENID Network. Sydney University graduates Nina Khoury (commerce and law) and Adriana Stefanatos (commerce) created the network: an all-female careers advice and networking platform for high school ...
More »PhDs who had no plans to find work in academia do : UK survey
In the UK the proportion of doctoral students who find academic jobs is greater than the proportion with a definite aspiration to do so – except in the arts and humanities, a major survey of PhD students’ career aspirations have ...
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