Australian universities have ranked among the top world's best business schools, with nine institutions named top-tier for their MBA programs. US-based CEO Magazine published its annual Global MBA Rankings, drawing data from schools 121 schools across the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America, ...
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A harmful parasite was found in freshwater fish last week by a team of researchers, sparking an urgent call for more university research funding. Charles Sturt University researchers, in collaboration with NSW Department of Primary Industries and the Narrandera Fisheries ...
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Millions of university students may see their debt increase by thousands of dollars after a bill to pause HECS-HELP indexation was rejected by the Senate. Last year, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi introduced new legislation to freeze student debt in a ...
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Deakin University has pushed forward a non-union ballot for staff after wage negotiations with the union reached "an impasse". On Friday, Deakin University's chief people and culture officer Stacey Walton told staff via e-mail that enterprise agreement talks with the ...
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Students are still facing barriers when reporting sexual assault and harassment on Australian university campuses despite a sector-wide overhaul of institutional policies and support services. Last month marked one year since the findings of the second Universities’ Australia National Student ...
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The nation’s most powerful bureaucrat has challenged the long-term direction of Commonwealth higher education policy which led to Australian universities being very large by world standards, highly reliant on international students for revenue and facing growing financial risk. In a ...
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Graduates of Curtin University are most preferred by employers, according to the federal government’s latest 2022 survey results, with employing organisations asked to rate the quality of the graduates they hire. With an employer satisfaction rate of 89.7 per cent, ...
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The University of Melbourne recorded a $203 million deficit in 2022, despite posting record-breaking surpluses over the past two years. On Thursday, the University of Melbourne released its financial results for the end of 2022, where it finished with $203 ...
More »USYD staff vote to continue strikes
Staff at the University of Sydney have voted to continue rolling industrial action marking the longest-running strike campaign seen in any Australian university. On Friday, staff from the university formed picket lines in front of the university's Camperdown campus marking ...
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The University of the Sunshine Coast Sippy Downs campus was named Australia's happiest university by an artificial intelligence program that analysed students' Instagram pictures. The analysis used an AI recognition tool that measured levels of emotion in human faces to ...
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