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20 décembre 2015

White student unions are based on a misunderstanding that anti-racism means anti-white

By Jessica Walton. Since late November, there has been a surge of discussion about the appearance of white student union Facebook pages branded with the logos of universities in the US and recently in Australia. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Australia’s innovation agenda: embracing risk or gambling with public health?

By Quinn Grundy. The just-released Innovation Statement aims to be a catalyst for a cultural shift “where we embrace risk” in the name of innovation. More...

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20 décembre 2015

New Aboriginal languages course should count towards ATARs

By Jakelin Troy. From 2016, high school students will be able to study any one of the 70 or more Aboriginal languages of New South Wales. Teachers, academics and the wider community have fought hard for this policy shift in this state. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Year 12 results day: does the ATAR actually matter that much?

By Shane Duggan. This morning, thousands of young people will be glued to their mobile phones for good reason. It’s the first day that Australian Tertiary Admissions Rankings (ATARs) are released to students. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Why is being a school principal one of the most dangerous jobs in the country?

By John Fischetti and Scott Imig. Miner, commercial fisherman, firefighter, school principal. Would you have placed your local school head among the ranks of such dangerous jobs? Most likely you would not. However, a survey released this week makes the case that our school heads are suffering greatly. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Funding barriers shut out asylum seekers and refugees from further education

By Asher Hirsch and Joyce Chia. If people seeking asylum and refugees on temporary visas want to go to TAFE or university, they need to pay international student fees, often in the tens of thousands of dollars. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Will the impact framework fix the problems the research audit found?

By Claire Smith and Dawn Bennett. The results from the latest university research audit indicate that research in Australia is improving. This suggests that the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise is working: ERA has achieved its main aim of boosting the quality of Australian research. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Why are our 15 year olds falling behind in reading and writing?

By Misty Adoniou. Our 15 year olds are continuing to fall behind in literacy, according to latest figures from the national testing scheme NAPLAN. So far, the solutions devised by our politicians have been useless. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Reforming vocational education: it’s time to end the exploitation of vulnerable people

By Mary Leahy. Australia’s vocational education sector is a mess. Tightening regulation and tweaking some of the settings will contain the damage, but these measures alone will not address deeper problems in the sector. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Australian graduates who move overseas will have to pay back student loans

By Claire Shaw. University graduates who move overseas for more than six months will now have to pay back their student loans.
Until now, graduates who moved abroad were under no obligation to repay their student debt while they lived in another country. More...

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