Luke Sheehy, executive director of the Australian Technology Network of universities, including RMIT and UTS, said the sector had prioritised the welfare of students during the COVID-19 crisis and campuses were "vibrant, safe and welcoming places".
"International students are an important part of...
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Luke Sheehy, executive director of the Australian Technology Network of universities, said workers were “missing out not because of who they are or what they do, but because they happen to work for a university”.
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While workplaces and schools around the country battled to take business and education online in response to Covid-19, Jack Begbie was “in awe” at how quickly University of Technology Sydney was able to make the switch.
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Australia's universities have warned their viability is threatened from major revenue losses of more than $3 billion, declaring they need government to step in to sustain their teaching and research efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The alarm from the sector, which has suffered major losses...
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Tanya Plibersek has called on the Morrison government to provide low-cost loans and guarantee universities’ funding, warning some are at risk of collapse due to falls in international enrolments during the Covid-19 crisis.
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"Universities experienced a surge in enrolments after the former Gillard government removed caps on places, but that the number of school-leavers going on to university had since plateaued.
“We saw a decline in TAFE when university places were uncapped, so, I expect this is just a rebalancing,” Mr...
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Education Minister Dan Tehan is something of an oddity in the cutthroat world of Australian politics. People actually like him.
Ask his colleagues, the people he works with in his portfolio and even his opponents and they’ll generally tell a similar story: Tehan is a good guy, in Canberra for the...
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Australia’s “highly generic” nationwide framework for academic qualifications should be overhauled to improve training flexibility and better recognise microcredentials, a review of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) has found.
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Engineering and design students are collaborating to prepare for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge using modelling techniques in RMIT’s industrial wind tunnel.
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Late last year, in December 2019, a specially selected set of students from top Australian universities became the seventh set to complete Huawei's Seeds for the Future program, learning about China, Huawei and more.
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