Covid builds demand for new skills
Demand for postgraduate courses surged during the pandemic as job losses prompted people to retrain or extend their skills.
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Snow family’s $70m for medicine
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Uni hit with $17m wage theft claim
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Peggy O’Neal is new RMIT chancellor
A lawyer and business and community leader will replace Ziggy Switkowski as RMIT University’s chancellor from January.
Unis need ‘buffer’ from government
Monash Uni chief Margaret Gardner calls for more distance between universities and government.
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