Archive for category: Oceanic

ShareAkram Azimi, a former Warwick Senior High School student and the 2013 Young Australian of the Year, will be visiting schools across Australia in Term 2 on behalf of the Global Poverty Project How Akram spends his time at schools is up to teachers to decide. It could be in [...]

ShareIncome Contingent Loans from 2014 Who will be affected by this measure? From 1 January 2014, new higher education students in receipt of Youth Allowance, Austudy or ABSTUDY will be ineligible for the Student Start-up Scholarship (SSS). Instead, these students will be eligible for equivalent Income Contingent Loans, totalling up to [...]

ShareUniversity of Melbourne leads the way, making the global top ten in six subjects: education (3rd), law (5th), linguistics (6th), psychology (7th), accounting and finance (7th) and medicine (9th). ANU attains top-ten rankings in politics and international studies (6th), history (7th), geography (8th=), linguistic ( 9th) and philosophy (10th). The University [...]

ShareFamilies will get a discount of up to $900 on preschool fees this year as a result of a one-off $20 million boost in Commonwealth funding. The announcement accompanies the release of a report which reveals that one in seven children in NSW are missing out on early childhood education. [...]

ShareMELBOURNE, Australia, March 20, 2013 – Australia’s leader in online education, Open Universities Australia (OUA), today unveils its new, free online education venture, Open2Study. Demonstrating a high quality free online education experience, Open2Study is a new dimension in online learning, unlike anything else currently available worldwide. “Open2Study isn’t a me-too MOOC; its [...]

ShareUniversities have warned they will not implement plans by the NSW government to set benchmarks for teaching courses based on HSC results, instead preferring a plan announced by the federal government today. The Gillard government has announced new standards for teaching students, including more complex entry requirements to teacher training [...]

ShareThree UK universities have dropped out of the top 100 in the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, while Australia continues to build its presence. The US, which has more universities than any other nation in the top 100, has lost two universities since the ranking began. The 2013 rankings, published [...]

Share Universities climb world table Six in the top 100 AUSTRALIAN universities have improved their international standing in the past year and now enjoy the third highest ranked reputation in the world. The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, to be released today, found Australian now lags only behind the US [...]

ShareThe University of NSW has broken into the top 100 on a global list ranking higher education prestige. The number of Australian institutions in the upper bands of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings has risen from four to six, with UNSW and Victoria’s Monash University making the top 100 for [...]

ShareWith data journalism growing in importance across Australian newsrooms The Centre of Advanced Journalism, at the University of Melbourne, has launched what is believed to be Australia’s first dedicated course on the topic. Run as an intensive class the course shows students how to analyse and filter large data sets [...]