In this podcast Campus Review talks to Wendy Blight, A VET trainer and workplace assessor at Charles Darwin University (CDU) in Alice Springs. She recently learned she is one of the Northern Territory's four finalists competing for the Trainer of ...
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The National Tertiary Education Union has submitted a Freedom of Information application over The University of Western Australia's $40 million ‘Structural Reform Program’, which they say could cost up to 400 jobs. The union is demanding transparency over the details ...
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A white supremacist convicted of terror offences has escaped a custodial sentence as a judge instead ordered him to stop reading right wing material and pick up some Jane Austen. Ben John was handed the 24-month sentence, suspended for two ...
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Professor Mia Lindgren is the Dean of Swinburne University of Technology's School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education. She spoke to Campus Review about how many arts-related skills, including critical thinking, innovation and problem solving appeared at the top ...
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A former high-ranking academic at a Sydney university is fighting to avoid ending up in jail after she was found guilty of masterminding a mystifying hate mail campaign targeting herself that caused the institution to stump up for a ring of security ...
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A new report from the Mitchell Institute finds that Australian university profits took a nosedive in 2020, dropping $1.6 billion to just $669 million. Nearly half of Australian unis reported a loss and most struggled to break even. Only three ...
More »Deakin to lose 200 jobs, fears a second wave of job losses to come
Deakin university will axe up to 200 staff as the university goes through another round of redundancies. Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Martin announced a plan to cut between 180-220 jobs as the pandemic continues to bite into the sector's bottom ...
More »HEDx Podcast – The best of times, the worst of times – Episode 35
Sandra Harding, as Australia's current longest serving VC of a single Australian university at JCU in Townsville, joins the HEDx team. She reflects on how the sector's leaders and staff are feeling and of the culture change that is needed for ...
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New research from Flinders University has found that during 2020 women from affluent backgrounds had higher levels of mental health complaints, compared to women of other social classes. The survey looked at 799 Australian women aged 45-64 years at two ...
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