Data breach for 10,000 current and former uni students
It comes as the personal information of an unknown number of WSU members appears to have been posted to the dark web – the latest in a number of ‘persistent and targeted’ cyber attacks.
Education
Publisher’s fail on Israel’s existence
A chance discovery at a Wenona School grandparents’ day has revealed that a popular children’s dictionary claims Israel’s status as a country is ‘disputed’
ATAR of 39 and accepted into a teaching degree
As Australia cries out for more teachers, some universities are inflating enrolments by admitting students with the lowest high school results.
History warrior Keith Windschuttle dies
Former prime ministers pay tribute to historian who challenged prevailing views as he strode that well-worn path from the left to the right of Australian politics.
Engineer this: extra 60,000 graduates
Engineers Australia has challenged universities to train an extra 60,000 engineers over the next decade to fill skills shortages.
Education Commentary
COMMENTARY
Unis will miss globalisation now that it has gone
The US government can fund or not fund what it likes. Suggestions the Australian government should consider the US the equivalent of the PRC are ridiculous.
COMMENTARY
Let’s call ‘research misconduct’ what it really is – fakery and fraud
Faked scientific findings can send other researchers off on dead-end trails, pursuing world-changing, lifesaving results that can’t exist. Universities must stop it before it’s too late.
BUDGET 2025: COMMENTARY
Unis must stop just demanding funds and move with the times
University managements have long assumed that their control of courses and power to issue qualifications would see off competitors. Problem is that people who need a specific skill can now pick it up online for a fraction of the cost.
COMMENTARY
Seven things that matter in election education battle
The election issue for universities is a choice between more, or much more, government control. But there is one big difference.
COMMENTARY
‘Outright incompetence’: Why unis keep underpaying staff
It comes down to management indifference and union recalcitrance. It’s just easier for everybody to announce that everything is the fault of inadequate government funding.
COMMENTARY
It’s not rocket science: Universities can’t get money for nothing
If the Coalition wins the federal election the next education minister will have final say on where Australian Research Council money goes. Seem strange that this is actually an issue? Not to academics who argued hard for the present system of little oversight.
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Free books in Coalition bid to get kids reading
Free books for disadvantaged children are part of the Coalition’s ‘focus on fundamentals’ in education.
Divorce, disability, poverty: Third of uni students on equity awards
Equity and disadvantage provisions have been used to lower academic entry standards by one in three university applicants, the nation’s biggest admissions processing centre has revealed.
‘A last resort’: ANU council member resigns
The twice-elected member of the Australian National University Council told her colleagues the Council no longer ‘aligns with the principles of accountability and representation’.
‘I’ll remember’: Law lecturer warned students over Indigenous history ‘walkout’ | LISTEN
A University of Queensland law lecturer berated first year law students, warning they should ‘watch out what you say and what you do’ if they wanted to do well in their law degree.
‘Overseas students are scapegoats, not the cause’
Student housing developers have rejected Coalition plans to slash the intake from offshore but want universities to guarantee beds for first-year international students.
‘I read like a five-year-old’
‘For years I tried to cover it up.’ A successful business woman explains how she left high school with the reading ability of a five-year-old.
‘Systemic cultural problem’: uni pays thousands to conservative student
Griffith University has been forced to pay $10,000 to a PhD student who had been critical of voice architect Megan Davis, after a professor shared the student’s personal information and described him as a ‘f..kwit’.
No woke syllabus for us: Catholic schools
Catholic schools have called for the ‘ideological’ national curriculum to be abolished, as new research reveals more boys are slipping behind girls in their academic performance.
Unis blame politicians for ‘race to the bottom’
As Labor and the Coalition pledge to slash migration, Universities Australia warns it is ‘crazy’ to cut revenue from foreign students.
Breakthrough in mining tech
Mining tech innovator NextOre and the University of Technology Sydney’s Robotics Institute have banded together to develop a revolutionary ore sorting system.
Student ‘30pc flat caps to cost $4bn’
The peak body for universities says a proposal to cap international student numbers at a percentage of total enrolments could cost the economy $4bn and cut almost 55,000 students.
Coalition declares war on ‘woke’ teaching
The Coalition has pledged to wipe out ‘ideological agendas’ in universities through an unprecedented level of ministerial intervention in course content.
Student visas dive as ‘de facto cap’ takes effect
The number of international students who applied for and were granted a student visa has fallen dramatically, in the first indication the measure, largely targeting Chinese students, is working.
Teachers can’t cop violence in classrooms
With more violence reported in classrooms and playgrounds, school principals have called out assaults and abuse from students and parents.
Student debt cuts ‘to benefit teals, Greens’
Jason Clare says Labor’s election pledge to cut student debt by 20 per cent will benefit constituents in hotly contested independent and Greens seats.
‘Jews should feel uncomfortable’: uni probes academic’s comments
A Jewish anti-Zionist professor, who says he was citing fellow academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, told a rally ‘it’s our duty to make them uncomfortable’.
Academics condemn Bishop, ANU leaders
ANU staff have passed a vote of no confidence in chancellor Julie Bishop and vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell over job cuts and leadership scandals.
Testing times when law has lost its faculties?
Following The Australian’s revelation that law students were forced to conduct an acknowledgment of country or lose marks, The Mocker takes a sneak peek at the faculty’s upcoming exam questions for this semester.
Coalition vows to match Labor schools funding ‘dollar for dollar’
School funding deals have won bipartisan backing but the details remain secret.
Dumped Shore principal in fight for job
Sydney’s Shore School has claimed concerns about the ‘performance’ of a former headmaster were repeatedly raised before his contract was terminated.
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