Picture a cube. People will likely have varying responses to this command. For some, the cube will be large. They might imagine that it’s floating. Others will use their answer to infer something about their personality through an online quiz. But for ...
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Seven Australian universities have been selected to lead a cyber security network announced by the NSW Government on Friday. The $2 million project will see the University of Newcastle, UNSW Sydney, Macquarie University, the University of Wollongong, the University of Technology ...
More »UNSW tackles gender imbalance
The University of New South Wales aims to smash gender imbalance in engineering by bringing the number of females enrolled in the degree up to 30 per cent by 2020. As part of the initiative, more than 100 girls from ...
More »Students’ most wanted: uni preferences revealed
Year 12 results are almost out, meaning NSW and ACT school students are about to discover if they've achieved their #goals. One of these may be to get into USYD. Australia's first university scooped 14.84 per cent of overall preferences, per UAC figures released today. UNSW, ...
More »On the Move November
WATTERSTON HEADED FOR MELBOURNE Dr Jim Watterston has been appointed dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He is currently the director-general of the Queensland Department of Education and Training, and has more than 30 years’ experience in education, ...
More »New MBA rankings see Melbourne and UNSW make top 50
A new set of rankings puts the MBAs offered by Melbourne Business School (MBS) and AGSM at UNSW in the global top 50. Global higher education company QS produced its inaugural QS World University Rankings: Global MBA using five factors – ...
More »A quarter of international students earn $12 an hour or less: survey
Many international students are being massively rorted by employers, a landmark survey has found. Researchers from UNSW and UTS canvassed 4,300 temporary migrants, many of whom were international students. Among other disquieting findings, they discovered a quarter of international students earned $12 ...
More »The other kind of sexual harassment on campus
On-campus sexual assault and harassment was one of the biggest news stories of the year. Yet only students were the focus of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)'s inquiry and report on this subject. This doesn't mean university staff are immune to this phenomenon. Indeed, the Weinstein scandal has shifted ...
More »Student seepage worrisome: government
“People are making complicated – and sometimes deeply personal – decisions to withdraw from study when life gets in the way. We shouldn’t pressure students to stay enrolled if they need to care for a dying parent, for instance, and ...
More »ATAR not decisive in UNSW law entry
In the summer of 2016, University of New South Wales Law quietly unveiled a new entry process for undergraduates: prospective students are assessed for admission to the faculty based on their ATAR and their score in a Law Admission Test (LAT). The ...
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