By Elizabeth Cannon. In a few weeks, close to a million undergraduate university students will head off to campuses across Canada. About a quarter of them are first-year students, and they’re in for a life-changing experience. The people they meet, the courses they take, and the projects they tackle outside of the classroom will shape their future – and Canada’s. More...
By Alan Wildeman. Who would have thought it would come to this. Academics around the world are having to explain why there is value in studying history, English, philosophy, psychology, creative arts and the other subjects that collectively make up what we loosely refer to as the liberal arts, or the humanities and social sciences. It is the equivalent of masons having to justify mortar and plumbers having to justify pipes. More...
The Group of Eight (Go8) is delighted Australia’s universities have embraced a cohesive push for research and innovation to be a crucial national imperative. More...
The latest Australian Research Council funding round announced today by the Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham, is a definitive statement of the Group of Eight’s (Go8) dominance and determination in partnering with industry for the betterment of a competitive Australian economy. More...
By Tim Dodd. One of Australia's top economic research centres has withdrawn its controversial finding that graduates of the elite Group of Eight universities earn less through their careers than people who study at less prestigious institutions.
The Melbourne Institute of Economic and Social Research blamed a computer coding error for the sensational, but incorrect claim, that riled the top sandstone universities. More...
The Group of Eight (Go8) Vice Chancellors welcome the Government’s focus on innovation and its determination to ensure an assessment of research impact. The Australian public deserves not only greater transparency in how their tax dollars are spent, but also a far better understanding of how their lives are enriched every day by funding University research. More...
The Group of Eight (Go8) has today convened a meeting in Canberra of its commercialisation executives from around Australia. The meeting is being attended by a number of its Vice Chancellors and DVC-s Research. Throughout the course of the day the group will also meet with Ministers and departmental representatives. More...
This week, QAA plays host to the tenth European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF). EQAF is the only pan-European annual conference to bring together students, agencies and institutions to talk about higher education quality assurance, aiming to bridge national boundaries and create a common European understanding. More...
Universities that offer potential students a wide range of comprehensive information achieve a higher satisfaction score in the National Student Survey (NSS), according to new research published by QAA. More...
Learning design - the quality of teaching materials, assessment strategies and workload - offers the most significant contribution to overall student satisfaction, research concludes. More...
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