Ire and disgruntlement have dogged UNSW’s decision to switch from the semester to trimester calendar, ever since it was announced in late 2016. Even as the new structure was rolled out at the beginning of the year, the Cancel Trimesters ...
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A Philippine tradition may be made into law, with the House of Representatives green-lighting a measure requiring students to plant at least 10 trees before they graduate. Currently, it’s something of a rite of passage for a Philippine student to ...
More »Overseas students from three countries contribute equivalent of total domestic students: NSW unis audit report
“Thirty-eight percent of NSW universities’ total student revenue came from overseas students from three countries.” This was one key finding to come out of a new report released last week by the state’s audit office, which provides summary and analysis ...
More »PhD student sues James Cook for $3m over damage to career and sex drive
Alleging James Cook University is in a “conspiracy” to ruin his career, a PhD Philosophy student is suing the university for $3.125 million in damages and compensation. In a 20-page petition submitted to the Supreme Court, 52-year-old Kuldeep Mann claims ...
More »$10 billion could be unlocked in uni property assets, claims EY report
Up to $10 billion in property assets could be unlocked from Australia’s current university campuses – but only if they adapt. This is according to a new report from multinational accounting firm Ernst & Young, which claims that the traditional ...
More »A vision for radical university change
The world over, the higher education sector is booming. The number of global students attending higher education has doubled since 2000 alone, and a recent study predicts that by 2040, nearly 600 million students will be enrolled. Such statistics glimmer ...
More »An educated decision in enterprise software: Why the education sector is reinvesting in enterprise capability
By Peter Nikoletatos, Industry Director – Education, TechnologyOne Almost three quarters of Australian educational institutions are planning to replace or adopt new enterprise solutions in 2019 to take advantage of new technologies, according to a recent study from IBRS, titled ...
More »MOOC shows promise to improve dementia knowledge globally
A massive open online course (MOOC) promises to improve understanding of dementia on a global scale. In a paper published last month in Science of Learning, a partner journal of Nature, a research team from the University of Tasmania assessed ...
More »Mark my words: research finds uni students prefer digital feedback
Comments scrawled manually? Face-to-face dialogue? Or digital recordings? In a new Monash University study, thousands of Australian university students have voted digital as their preferred feedback mode. The study asked over 4,500 students from two universities to rate the level ...
More »Strung out: research finds a quarter of uni students stressed daily
In contrast to the sanguine, laughing faces of students you see on most university marketing flyers and websites, a uni student’s life is no walk in the park. It’s not supposed to be: the whole purpose of enrolment is to ...
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