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University of Newcastle

August 2024

Students at the University of Sydney. It, along with other Group of Eight universities, will lose the largest number of students under changes the government is making.

Major universities smashed in Labor about-face on overseas students

The government will cap numbers and redistribute them across the sector, one of the country’s biggest export industries, with smaller institutions to benefit.

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  • Julie Hare
University of Newcastle’s Drew Miller: Improving teaching standards and student outcomes.

Winning strategy: Remarkable results lifting HSC scores by 50pc

Comment provided by the winner of the Community Engagement category, the University of Newcastle.

  • Drew Miller

A 50pc improvement: Unis turn the tide on disadvantage

The winner of the community engagement category is reversing the fortunes of disadvantaged children in a partnership that has lifted HSC results.

  • Agnes King

Winning strategy: Giving students the best chance of success

Comment provided by the winner of the equity and access award, University of Newcastle.

  • Anna Bennett

‘They do it tough’: Universities welcome disadvantaged Australians

Bridging courses pave the way to university for students without high-school qualifications, and the Equity winner has been doing it for decades.

  • Sian Powell
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Higher Education Award winners RMIT’s Professor Tianyi Ma, former vice chancellor of Monash University and RMIT Margaret Gardner, and Newcastle University’s vice chancellor Alex Zelinsky.

In face of disruption, unis offer scalable, powerful solutions

Universities are being disrupted, but their contribution to society is profound, as the winners of the Higher Education Awards show.

  • Julie Hare

June 2024

The University of Sydney is an outlier in NSW – it not only made a surplus last year but had the highest revenues across all areas.

NSW unis in a sea of red, but worse to come

NSW universities struggled for a second year in a row, but their annus horribilis is still on the horizon.

  • Julie Hare

April 2024

The US Department of Agriculture has confirmed that cows in Texas, Kansas and Michigan have been infected with H5N1 bird flu.

Avian flu outbreak in US cows tracked by Australian officials

The CDC says this is a developing situation and so far, a person in Texas who had direct contact with dairy cattle, has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu.

  • Jill Margo

September 2023

How mine safety became a winning strategy for Orica

Automation is helping to keep miners safe, boost productivity and explore risky shafts.

  • Christopher Niesche
Michael Pomroy still lectures in medicine, but spends most of his time online gaming.

Why this Newcastle doctor switched from scrubs to video games

Michael Pomroy made about $140,000 last year playing construction and building games online and posting videos about them after burning out as a doctor.

  • Larry Schlesinger

April 2023

Newcastle University’s Jessica Haugh walked straight into a job with renewable energy construction company Zenviron after graduating.

How this university will make graduates like Jessica more employable

Recent degree recipients struggle to get jobs because they don’t have any work experience. Newcastle University is working to change that dynamic.

  • Julie Hare

November 2022

HSC students are increasingly shying away from extension English courses.

The trouble with boys starts before they step into a classroom

Boys are behind girls academically from the get-go. And by the time they get to year 9, they have already fallen far behind their female schoolmates.

  • Julie Hare

October 2022

Teaching and early childhood will receive a boost in university places in Tuesday’s budget.

Teaching, early childhood get lion’s share of new uni places

Skill shortage areas, including teaching, IT, engineering and nursing, will receive additional places in Tuesday’s budget.

  • Julie Hare

September 2021

A university collaboration is focused on developing western Sydney’s vast potential.

Uni collaboration mines western Sydney’s diamond in the rough

Targeted research and technology collaborations in western Sydney might prove to be the pressure release the region needs.

  • Andy Marks

August 2021

University of Technology Sydney Vice Chancellor Attila Brungs speaking at the summit.

Forced research collaboration a COVID-19 upside

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities and industry to collaborate more closely.

  • Natasha Gillezeau
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July 2021

Mark Vaile

Vaile’s blacklisters hijacked the bedrock idea of a university

Universities champion open inquiry and academic freedom. This fundamental idea is betrayed by special interest groups dictating the exclusion of viewpoints.

  • Paul Jeans

June 2021

Whitehaven Coal chairman Mark Vaile has lashed out at critics of his appointment to Newcastle University.

Vaile lashes out at critics after he withdraws from university job

Mark Vaile’s parting gesture after stepping aside as chancellor of Newcastle University was to lash those who sought to disrupt the appointment.

  • Julie Hare
Mark Vaile has succumbed to pressure and resigned as chancellor of Newcastle University.

Vaile resigns as Newcastle Uni chancellor before he even begins

Mark Vaile’s appointment as the next chancellor of Newcastle University has come to an end following protests and anger over his links to coal.

  • Julie Hare
Mark Vaile was recently named chancellor of Newcastle University.

Coal mining meets climate activism: Mark Vaile contains multitudes

Mark Vaile chairs Palisade Investment Partners, which has signed a letter calling on phasing out coal. Which wouldn’t be great for Vaile’s Whitehaven.

  • Myriam Robin
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Storm of protest grows over Vaile’s new chancellor job

Anger at Newcastle University’s appointment of coal chief Mark Vaile is white hot, with a second resignation and a ban on donations from high-profile givers.

  • Julie Hare

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