The report found that hard, technical skills picked up throughout academica “may not be enough to stand out in a highly competitive job market”.

The Good Universities Guide 2020 has named Charles Sturt University the top-ranked Australian university in graduate employment, with 86 per cent of graduates securing full-time work within four months of completing their courses. The guide also found that Charles Sturt ...

The 2019 Good Careers Guide holds positive news for would-be engineers and physiotherapists. The engineering industry is experiencing a shortage in Australia due to stagnating university enrolments for nearly two decades and a glut of new jobs. Indeed, it is ...

The concept of graduate employability has become one of utmost importance and concern for universities and their students in Australia and beyond, and yet, despite the ever-increasing resources and energy being poured into ensuring that employability is achieved through a ...

Undergraduates who studied at Charles Sturt University are more likely to be employed full-time three years after graduation than those from other universities – and they’re probably earning more too. That’s according to the 2018 Graduate Outcomes Survey – Longitudinal ...

Don't get entranced by dazzling headlines: overall, Australian university graduates are still limping towards meaningful employment. "New graduates are still less likely to get a full-time job than a decade ago..." a new Grattan report provides. Mapping Australian higher education ...

Have you noticed that students aren't that resilient? Eleven thousand global employers have. In the QS Global Skills Gap in the 21st Century Report, they reported a lack of resilience as the largest student skill gap, among many others. The report, ...

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 ...

This year's Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, held at USYD, did not solely focus on education. Crucially, careers also got a look-in, as graduate jobs likely remain hard to come by. USYD's vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence AC directly tackled this ...

The annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey bears bad news for graduates. Released this week, it shows that while the more educated generally fare better across several social and economic outcomes, such outcomes aren’t as good as ...