Professor Linda Shields from Charles Sturt University is a specialist in nursing ethics. She has co-written a book on the role of nurses in Nazi Germany’s forced euthanasia programs and recently authored an opinion paper on the role of nurses ...
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Three vice-chancellors have been recognised today by being inducted into the Order of Australia. University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence will now have AC after his name as a Companion of the Order of Australia. Spence received the honour ...
More »UniMelb releases sustainability plan
The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021, and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund. Allan Tait, UniMelb chief financial ...
More »Start-up launched to help students launch start-ups
For entrepreneur Bevis Cheng, failure is much more interesting than success. “It really shapes the way you think about things, the way you approach things, what you could do differently, what you could do better,” Cheng says. “I mean everybody ...
More »Talking Eds, episode 19: adopted babies recalling languages, international student destinations, non-completion rates and mentoring
In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...
More »USYD welcomes Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander students into mentorships
The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Students in Year 9 and 10 are part of the Wingara Mura program while those in Year 11 ...
More »Vann staying at CSU, retaining med school focus
Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor professor Andrew Vann has renewed his contract and will stay at the helm until 2021. For his next term, Vann said he'd ensure CSU added value to the communities it was a part of. This meant, ...
More »Printer security often overlooked
Printing documents is such a quotidian part of life working in the education industry that you rarely consider it for more than a second. You receive an email you want to save for a meeting; an interesting piece of online ...
More »Unis call for perspective in completion rate debate
Universities Australia is calling for perspective as a new debate about uni dropouts kicks off, by pointing out that 7 out of 10 students complete their degree within nine years. This is despite the same federal Education Department data showing that ...
More »ASM announces new physical and digital campuses
A leading private higher education provider has opened a new campus in the heart of Melbourne. The Australian School of Management’s new Flinders Street location will offer students a range of bachelor degrees, associate degrees and diplomas in business and ...
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