Education innovation and learning innovation are not the same thing, and it’s important to know the difference when evaluating strategies. Words matter. Yet the words we use to describe the transformation of education aren’t always sufficiently specific. For example, we ...
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Campus Review news editor Patrick Avenell was dismayed to see his local bus displaying an advertisement for his alma mater, Australian National University, the top-ranked university in Australia. He thought the ad, and its placement on a humble people-carrier, cheapened the university's ...
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Supawit Mahaguna, aged 21, was born in Thailand. Now a Bachelor of Commerce (International Business) student at Curtin University, he has stumbled on greater success with, literally, the click of an email. "I received an email about [the opportunity]. At the ...
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Leading heart doctor heads to ACU Internationally renowned cardiologist professor John McMurray, a leading authority on the epidemiology and clinical management of heart disease, has joined the Australian Catholic University’s Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research. McMurray’s seminal body of ...
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On Twitter, United States vice-president Mike Pence proclaimed he was “proud” to address the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 graduating class. But his pride may have evaporated when an estimated 100 students left as he commenced his speech at the prominent ...
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