National newspaper The Australian does not have an internship program. Nonetheless, a few years ago, a young woman interned there, by virtue of the fact that she was a company bigwig's daughter. This woman is now a prominent journalist at a different ...

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 ...

Hamish began his editorial internship at The Herald Sun "very tired" on a New Year's Day. His first task? To approach strangers on the street and ask them if they had already broken their New Year's resolutions. Surprisingly to some, ...

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 ...

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 ...

  Bishop’s New Colombo Plan is more than just another name for AsiaBound. By Phil Honeywood In any new government, departmental restructures, rebadging of programs and new names stamped on policy initiatives are inevitable. This may well be the manner ...

 Bond University has launched its new subject to prepare students for the workplace and is already getting some good feedback.  The Bond University Professional Practice Program (BUPPP) originated from the need to create a subject for students to undertake in ...

Valuable foreign medical students are being deterred from Australian study by anxiety about the graduate internship bottleneck, says global migration researcher, Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne. Professor Hawthorne is associate dean international at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and ...