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
Coalition policy ‘will cost’ Go8 unis $1.2bn
What would the Coalition’s proposed foreign student crackdown cost top universities? Group of Eight chief executive Vicki Thomson has crunched numbers. But some universities are unafraid.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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’.
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.
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.
Schools find extra funds are Gonski
Schools have missed out on extra ‘Gonski funding’ after the Labor failed to include promised new spending in the pre-election budget.
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.
Gonski funds don’t add up as Labor ‘gifts’ $16.5bn
After a year of squabbling with states, the Albanese government has revealed a final figure for Gonski funding of public schools but its cash contribution doesn’t appear to add up.
University recruiting to ‘Indigenise the curriculum’
The University of Sydney has begun a hiring spree to help ‘decolonise’ the sandstone institution’s course subjects amid indoctrination fears.
Monash University’s PhD in the laws of identity politics
Students and academics have criticised Monash University’s law PhD course, which forces students to critique their thesis based on Marxist, feminist and critical race and queer theory.
No guesswork as teens ‘nuclear-powered’ to take up AUKUS careers
Over 2000 Australian high schoolers are being engaged in a program to fast-track them into careers assisting to build the nation’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet.
Ideology 101: students forced into ‘privilege walk’
Macquarie University law students who face the threat of failing a key exam over a lacklustre acknowledgment of country have been made to adopt different personas and perform a ‘privilege walk’.
Skills shortages ‘risk national security’, scientists warn
A ‘spreadsheet management approach’ to university education is creating skills shortages that threaten national security, professional organisations have warned.
Wrong uni degree choices costing billions
‘Overwhelming, complex and confusing.’ Thousands of school leavers have cast judgment on universities’ admissions systems in a new study that calls for better career guidance.
‘Soft marking’ for struggling uni students ‘dumbing down’ nation: academics
Hundreds of university professors and lecturers have blown the whistle on falling academic standards and cheating, in alarming evidence to a rushed Senate inquiry into university governance.
ACT raised childcare concerns last year
Anthony Albanese says revelations that one in 10 childcare centres have not been rated by regulators are of “deep concern” but has dismissed calls for a royal commission into the sector.
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