Bullied mercilessly for his condition, top student has last laugh
Lachlan Scott will graduate this weekend top of UQ’s speech pathology class, despite the challenges his condition has created during his four-year degree.
Higher Education
Skills war: Unis’ plea to relax visa rules in global hunt for talent
With the tertiary sector smashed by border closures, Queensland universities are pleading for help to lure back the world’s finest minds.
Uni or union: Griffith staff forced to pick sides in EBA vote
After Griffith University cut the National Tertiary Education Union out of their latest offer, staff voted on it over four days. One group supported it, while the other dug their heels in.
Student uproar as popular QUT teacher ‘tossed aside’
Queensland University of Technology students are in uproar over a shock decision not to renew the contract of one of the school’s most popular and revered teachers.
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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.
New ‘distraction’ helping private school kids de-stress
An elite Brisbane school has found a novel way to provide ‘therapy’ to stressed out students ahead of exams.
Uni students increasingly ditching gap year
Students are ditching a full gap year and heading back in droves to start their studies mid-year.
Tradies’ lifelong earnings higher than many uni grads’
Studying at university may seem like a wise career move but the reality is many graduates are finishing their degrees with a large HECS debt and losing out financially compared with school leavers who embarked on a trade.
How our schools are failing kids
Schools are failing to prepare Australian students for university and the jobs of the future as literacy and numeracy skills face “sharp falls”, the Productivity Commission has found.
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