Adelaide Uni wants you to eat insects
Move over meat and three veg, these researchers want to put a lot more on the menu. But they need your feedback. So how do you like your ants, worms and crickets?
Tertiary
School’s just a hop, skip and five day journey away
As messy as the start of this school year is proving to be, spare a thought for Pembroke boarder Lex Playford, who is on a four-day journey from remote SA.
Class of 2022: Meet SA’s new school bosses
Principals are crucial to what makes the best schools tick. And SA has lots of new ones. Get to know them in this roundup of the SA’s latest crop of school bosses.
Could you finally get Adelaide’s home-made Covid jab?
A locally developed vaccine has already been shot into millions of arms in Iran, and Aussies could at last get their hands on it after calls for fast-tracking.
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What graduates really want from first job
Thousands of uni students will be looking to enter the labour market once their exams finish at the end of November, but salary won’t be their top priority when choosing a job.
It’s time to stop thinking uni is for everyone
The Federal Government will work to end a decades-long push to get more students into university at the expense of vocational education and trades, amid a gaping shortage of workers in traditional blue collar occupations.
ATAR ‘dead within a decade’
ATAR is too narrow a measure of a graduate’s preparedness for further study or work, says the head of the SA Education Department.
What to study for a healthy job outlook
Health-related degrees are more likely to lead to employment than others, amid forecasts 250,300 more healthcare and social assistance jobs will be created between 2018 and 2023.
Adelaide shunts ATAR in uni entry overhaul
Year 12 students from all SA high schools will be able to gain entry to Adelaide University based on their results in specific subjects rather than just their tertiary admission rank.
Why Aussies wish they had traded up
Almost a quarter of Australians would train in a trades or services role if they could “go back to high school and start again”, while less than a third would opt for uni.
Bachelor gets uni students hot for science
The powers that be have been trying to get people interested in science and maths careers for years — all they really needed was a sexy, single astrophysicist on TV.
Australia’s booming overseas student number revealed
Australia’s intake of foreign students is up to seven times larger than other nations, making it one of the highest in the world, a new report has found.
New way to be master of your destiny
Postgraduate study is opening up to Australians without a university degree with wider recognition of the knowledge and experience would-be students bring from the workplace.
Regional students get cash lure to study at uni
Taxpayers would fork out for regional parents to visit their kids at university and country students would get cash payments under a radical plan to halt shocking drop out rates.
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