Speaking with an accent and having English as your second language in the higher education sector can become a hurdle for your career, leading to missed promotion opportunities, funding or even paper publications. “In certain settings, having an accented English ...
More »Flinders shares its resources to promote student wellbeing on campus
Lead researcher of Flinders University's wellbeing campaign, the Good Vibes Experiment, is encouraging the sector to use its free material to promote student wellbeing on campus. Built up as a collective project between mental health professionals, design communication specialists and ...
More »More international students to return after govt eases Covid rules
Australian universities will see more international students on campus after the government scrapped a raft of COVID-19 restrictions last week. In a statement last week health minister Mark Butler announced that people entering Australia would no longer be required to ...
More »HEDx podcast – Serving the world through learning, episode 53
Betty Vandenbosch, chief content officer at Coursera, joins the HEDx podcast to outline her vision of how the landscape of global higher education will have changed by 2030, and what Coursera and global universities can best do to prepare for ...
More »New research urges universities to challenge gender-based violence
Higher education can be life transforming for students who are victim survivors of gender-based violence, yet experts have said universities aren’t doing enough to support their students, nor for their broader commitment to gender equity. A new study from the ...
More »How to deal with the fear of rejection in academia: podcast
The competitiveness of the higher education sector, particularly in relation to securing funding, often leaves researchers dealing with rejection. According to Kelsey Zimmermann from the School of Psychology at UNSW, the experience of rejection is always painful, but it is important that ...
More »Rebels with a cause: meet the researchers finding new ways to present their work
A group of researchers are rebelling against traditional forms of academic output and are using different art forms to present their findings to a wider audience; and they are advocating for other researchers to follow their lead. In their new ...
More »Online innovation and partnerships as core university enterprise – opinion
The phenomenal growth and success story of Arizona State University, as a journey from a teachers’ college to a world-class major research university to a global online innovator, has been bolstered by bold, determined, long-term, strategic ventures undertaken through partnerships. ...
More »Claim lodged at Deakin as NTEU says wage theft is ‘endemic’ across sector
Eleven universities across the country have been flagged and are being investigated by the Fair Work Ombudsman for potential wage theft, with the NTEU saying some casual staff could be owed up to tens of thousands. In a letter sent ...
More »When catching up over a coffee gives you a research idea
It’s around a cup of coffee at Victoria University that Dr Yanni Bouras and his team decided to develop a way to transform takeaway coffee cups into concrete, with the aim of reducing landfill waste. Bouras, a lecturer in built ...
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