Censor OKs Gender Queer comic for teens
Australia’s censor has approved a comic book that illustrates sex and masturbation, after a two-year legal dispute and a court-ordered review.
Education
University boss discounts foreign student ‘phantom factor’
QUT’s vice-chancellor has blamed the poaching of foreign students by private providers as the reason almost half of its new international students dropped out or failed to show up.
Coalition pledges $100m for Indigenous boarding schools
The Coalition says ‘immense challenges’ face Aboriginal children living in remote communities, and has pledged to fund new boarding schools for hundreds of Indigenous students.
Greens ‘exclude’ Catholic schools
More than 70 per cent of parents from government, private and Catholic schools expect faith-based schools to operate within their ‘values and ethos’ and believe staff should support that position.
Five reasons neither party can solve skills shortages
There are five big reasons why the training system as is cannot match skill supply to economy demand, regardless of who wins the election.
ANU faces bullying, negligence allegations
Renowned scientist Sean Smith has taken the ANU to court for unfair dismissal, saying there was ‘absolute negligence on the part of ANU HR and then brutal behaviour to cover it up’.
Law academics trying to divide us along racial lines
To be blunt, what is ‘Indigenous law’? Australia is a sovereign nation with one set of laws and a large majority rejected racial separatism at the voice referendum.
Foreign student dropouts chase false trade job promise
As universities reveal large numbers of overseas students are abandoning degrees, an industry insider says the bipartisan push to cut visas is causing panic course-hopping into training in carpentry, plastering and painting.
Top university’s ‘two-lane’ tactics to tame AI
A Sydney University academic’s ‘dystopian’ suggestion that people ‘might marry AI’ has added to student concerns over the infiltration of artificial intelligence in academia.
UQ: law lecturer comments were ‘not appropriate’
The University of Queensland has admitted that some comments senior law lecturer Dani Linder made in a lecture ‘were not appropriate, after it emerged she berated first year students for leaving class during the topic to Indigenous legal history.
Macquarie Uni dumps acknowledgement of country assessment
Sydney’s Macquarie University has bowed to pressure and will no longer mark law students on their delivery of an acknowledgement of country.
Unis slam foreign student ‘phantoms’
The Coalition has vowed to get rid of immigration ‘rorts and shonks’ after a top university revealed half of its foreign students had dropped out of their degrees.
Uni leader makes case for tradies
University of NSW chancellor David Gonski has questioned the Albanese government’s ambitious target for 55 per cent of young Australians to get a university degree.
Monash examining ethical ‘concerns’ over research by leading economist
Monash University’s ethics and integrity team is investigating ‘concerns’ over research carried out by renowned development economist Asad Islam.
Foreign student visa appeals soar amid caps push
The number of international students challenging visa decisions via the appeals tribunal has soared to 25,854, prompting warnings the backlog will stall efforts to reduce temporary migration.
Foreign students line university vice-chancellors’ pockets
Six-figure pay rises have been granted to some university vice-chancellors as financial reports reveal how universities are continuing to cash in on international student revenue.
Epic fail but you actually don’t need a teaching degree to teach at uni
Things are going to get worse for those academics who worked out how to teach on the job and are too busy researching to learn how do things differently.
‘Appropriate action’ looms after uni lecturer’s walkout ‘threat’
University of Queensland will take ‘appropriate action’ after an academic suggested students who allegedly walked out of her law lectures over Indigenous issues would struggle to get jobs.
Greens put $46.5bn free uni proposal to Labor
The Greens will push Labor to sign up to a $46.5bn cash splurge on free university and TAFE in the event of a hung parliament, amid warnings a post-election deal between the two parties will lead to higher deficits.
No counting on teachers’ maths skills
Thousands of primary school teachers are struggling to teach mathematics – resulting in some teenagers still using their fingers to count.
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.
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.
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’.
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