Thousands of students at Sage Institute’s network of colleges have been told they will be given help to find a new college to continue their studies after administrators closed their campuses. The Australian Careers Institute, which owns the Sage Institutes ...
More »Some unis still don’t have a female mathematics professor
In 2017, there are Australian universities that still haven’t appointed a single woman to the position of professor of mathematics, a renowned mathematician has said in her keynote speech. And what grinds the gears of professor Nalini Joshi, the University ...
More »USYD equal first in new QS sports science table
The University of Sydney is one of the two best places in the world to study sport science, according to a new ranking published by QS today. QS’s Sports-Related Subjects table – a new addition to the QS World University ...
More »UA criticises Trump’s revised travel ban
It’s likely US President Donald Trump will continue to be the conversation topic of choice within higher education, as he issued his revised travel ban today. In an executive order, Trump has banned citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria ...
More »WSU study plants seeds of doubt in climate models
A new study from Western Sydney University has found that Australian eucalyptus trees can’t store as much carbon as previously thought, throwing into question the commonly held assumption that planting more trees will help manage climate change caused by greenhouse ...
More »University education set to cost even more: ASG
The cost of going to university has risen dramatically and is set to inflate even further, new research from the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has shown. The ASG Planning for University Index, which modeled the rising costs of higher education ...
More »Billionaire teams up with research centre to help vulnerable kids
When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Andrew Forrest comes knocking, you open the door. That’s what Perth’s Telethon Kids Institute did, and together with Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation, they’ve launched CoLab, an initiative aimed at helping vulnerable children by coordinating stakeholders and ...
More »Joyce, Birmingham announce regional education review
The federal government is undertaking a review to form a policy blueprint for helping country students have the same educational opportunities as their city counterparts. Federal education minister Simon Birmingham said that around one-third of country students don’t complete Year ...
More »Australia’s rust belts could host the ‘smartest places on earth’
Converting rust belts into brain belts. That’s how Dutch economist and author Antoine van Agtmael describes the process of transitioning a nation’s economy from an uncompetitive manufacturing or resources base to one that thrives off the products developed by a ...
More »Plibersek envisions more flexible demand-driven system
Federal Labor has flagged further reforms to increase flexibility in the demand-driven system of university funding if it comes to power at the next election. Addressing the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday 2 March 2017, shadow education minister ...
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