On Friday the federal government released on its 10-year strategy for international education, hoping to position the country for a robust pandemic recovery and “create new opportunities” to foster a more diverse and sustainable sector. Called the Australian strategy for ...
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Professor Andrew Jaspan is the founder of the highly reputable publication, The Conversation, and former editor-in-chief at both The Age and The Sunday Age. He and his team have just launched a closed trial of the 360info service, which has ...
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A group of teacher education experts have questioned a Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) paper that argues that beginning teachers are not being trained in evidence-based teaching practices for mathematics. Dr Dung Tran, Associate Professor Michael Cavanagh and Professor Rebecca ...
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Eligible international students will be able to re-enter Australia from December 1 this year after enduring nearly two years of closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of the sector’s peak bodies warn that returning to pre-pandemic enrolment ...
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Anthony Forster of Essex University in the UK joins the podcast as our first international VC. He describes the values that drive how his university seeks to differentiate and what made it UK University of the Year in 2018. He outlines the quite ...
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After nearly two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is perhaps no surprise that something related to it has been chosen as the Australian National Dictionary Centre’s word of the year. But while ‘pandemic’, ‘iso’ or ‘uncertainty’ could ...
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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) held a 12-hour digital sit-in on Monday morning at the University of Newcastle. The purpose of the digital protest was to shine a light on “the scale of insecure work at universities” and what ...
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A university of enterprise actively seeks to give voice to, and engage, all stakeholders. Its leadership team visibly and actively seeks to incorporate the views of its customers in plans for the future – and are not afraid of the ...
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According to Australian emotional intelligence expert Dr Ben Palmer, Chief Executive of Genos International, universities could play an important role in securing the the sector's future by offering units in emotional intelligence in their initial teacher education courses. In a ...
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On the surface, it’s hard to imagine what a 19th century helmet made from dried pufferfish skin and plant fibre could offer a postgraduate business student. But, in what might appear to be an unusual move, the university has incorporated ...
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