XR design gets real on the Sunshine Coast
The University of the Sunshine Coast and extended reality company HavenXR are fast-tracking local students in the new technology that merges both the physical and virtual worlds.
Education
Message to unis on R&D review: just what is in it for taxpayers?
At the core of university culture is a 1000-year tradition of pursuing knowledge for its own sake and if the community benefits – well that’s a bit of luck.
Architect of HECS slams Greens’ idea
Making university and TAFE free for all and wiping student debt bills, as the Greens have pitched, is as ‘inequitable’ and ‘regressive as policy can get’, the architect of the HECS student loan system has said.
‘$50 for the names’: tutoring boss targets high school students
Students’ private contact data is at risk as tutoring companies are paying peers to provide the confidential information of high-achieving students at top Sydney schools.
‘Cost explosion’: Warning against $10-a-day childcare
Some economists say Anthony Albanese implementing a flat daily fee for childcare will primarily benefit high-income households, and that ‘subsidies just end up leading to price increases’.
Raw pain: parents seek answers
Devastated parents have vented their anger at childcare centres where their little girls were repeatedly raped and assaulted by one of Australia’s worst pedophiles, Ashley Paul Griffith.
Private school numbers on the up
Families are voting with their feet when it comes to education, as private schools boost enrolments in the outer suburbs.
Why VCs are failing to make the (pay) grade
There are utterly hopeless vice-chancellors paid at grades way above their ability.
Monash goes ‘top of the pops’ in uni research fields
Monash University is the stand-out achiever in the latest look at national research performance in The Australian’s 2025 Research magazine.
Aussie team wins ‘Nobel for tech’
A University of Melbourne team has won the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize for the development of the first quantum-accurate simulation of biological systems.
Student trauma, violent parents: Teachers’ horrors uncovered
Suicide attempts and threats by school students have affected one in nine principals, a shocking new study shows as teachers detail ‘heartbreaking trauma’ in classrooms.
University vice-chancellors to have million-dollar salaries slashed
A new university watchdog will peg university leaders’ pay to that of top public servants | See how VCs’ salaries compare to top bureaucrats
Foreign students ‘to exacerbate rent crisis’
Labor’s proposed international students quota is likely to exacerbate rental demand in major cities that far outstrips the current supply of housing, new first-of-its-kind analysis claims.
Stop micromanaging and using universities as a political football
Government micro-management means it is little surprise that many universities have already announced significant cuts and jobs losses, writes Charles Sturt University provost Graham Brown.
Quarter of students mark down unis
The federal Education Department’s latest Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching data reveals that 23.3 per cent were not satisfied with the quality of their entire educational experience.
Free lunch, reading coaches in school pact
Free lunches, literacy coaches and youth workers for public schools will be funded through a $110m spending deal between the federal and ACT governments.
Crackdown on student visas ‘hurting businesses’
‘It’s a lottery.’ The hospitality industry is suffering collateral damage as the federal government slashes student visas.
VCAA boss quits abruptly after exam bungle
Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll confirmed that 56 of 116 VCE exams had been impacted by the publishing error and said he was ‘incredibly upset and angry’.
Religious filter to Catholic chatbot
Catholic schools have shunned off-the-shelf AI products to build their own chatbot that is ‘grounded in Catholic teaching, tradition and theology’.
Bookworm babies ‘do better in kindy’
Children who were regularly read books from birth were more likely to know letters and words and to speak using complex sentences by the age of three, study finds.
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