The Universities Accord final report has made 47 recommendations to the tertiary education sector to improve education outcomes and build the workforce of the future. Both the review and Education Minister Jason Clare strongly recommend extra funding and increased accessibility ...
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Engineering and defence efforts at universities are ramping up as vice-chancellors, educators and the federal government look to build a nuclear submarine-ready workforce. The University of New South Wales launched its Nuclear Innovation Centre last Thursday, a hub where engineering, ...
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Only 15 out of 39 Australian universities have up-to-date strategies to overcome issues of sexual assault and harassment on campus, an Australian Human Rights Institute (AHRI) report has found. The ARHI investigated each individual Australian university's policies and practices in ...
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The Universities Accord final report released on Sunday called for a major shakeup of the higher education sector that would prioritise accessibility and double the number of university places to 1.8m by 2050. The 47 recommendations would see students from ...
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CampusReview · HEDx Podcast: Uni might not be the best Year 13 option - Episode 104 In this podcast chief executive of Year13 Will Stubley joins Melbourne Business School chief learning innovation officer Dr Nora Koslowski and Martin Betts in ...
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Recent surveys and reports show that sexual assault and harassment on university campuses is rife, accelerated by broken and confusing reporting processes. Student surveys found an average of 275 students experience sexual assault on campus every week, and don't report ...
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Labor’s Universities Accord review of higher education is expected to back a financial levy on universities based on their broader levels of revenue, a move designed to penalise the institutions with large numbers of international students without explicitly saying so. The ...
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Monash University has boosted the cost of surge pricing for parking at its four campuses, with staff claiming they will have to fork out hundreds of dollars more to drive to work. Staff are unimpressed with the university urging them to “explore ...
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Downsizing, layoffs and cost-cutting policies have led to alarmingly high levels of work-related psychological distress in university staff, a new University of South Australia study has found. Two-thirds, or 67 per cent of respondents, were classed as having 'poor psychosocial ...
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A $1.3bn scheme to get more people into apprenticeships will be investigated amid concerns it is failing to grow the pipeline of workers needed to address critical skills shortages. Former Federal Court judge Justice Iain Ross and former senior public ...
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