TAFE teachers win four per cent pay boost
New NSW TAFE teachers will start out on salaries over $92,000 under a deal inked between the Minns government and teachers’ union.
Tertiary
Foreign hacks on Australian universities ‘only going to get worse’
The personal details of 7500 graduates at Western Sydney University have been hacked. A leading cyber security expert says similar breaches by malicious foreign actors are “only going to get worse” – and unis need to do more to defend themselves.
‘Nothing to hide’: Sydney Uni in stand-off with Gaza campers
Universities in Melbourne and Canberra are cracking down on pro-Palestine encampments but the 90-strong contingent at the University of Sydney will be left alone, the uni has confirmed.
‘Dodgy’: Uni boss calls out ‘real problem’ with international students
Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott has hit back amid plans to alleviate housing pressure by capping international student enrolments, arguing the Albanese government is missing the “real problem”.
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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.
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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