Bringing corporate sponsorship into the classroom
With the economic crisis hitting the already-struggling US education system hard, American colleges are selling off the naming rights to their classes to raise capital. "Quantitative Methods in Social...
View ArticleWhy journalism degrees should be scrapped
Journalism is not a profession like engineering, medicine or even law, says journalist Richard Sine: you can pick up most media skills on the job, and no-one dies if you stuff-up. Wannabe reporters...
View ArticleClosing the gap: tertiary education
Students from poorer socio-economic backgrounds struggle to convert academic potential evident at year 9 to year 12 results. We need to close this gap to help get them to uni, says Glyn Davis, VC at...
View ArticleDavis: Cutting to keep Melbourne University sound
The University remains in the black, but must slow future increases in spending to ensure its long-term viability is not compromised, writes Glyn Davis, the University's Vice Chancellor, in an email to...
View ArticleThe University of Melbourne gags VCA staff
The University of Melbourne has placed an unprecedented gag on Victorian College of the Arts staff members talking to the media, with Senior staff members currently locked in a battle with the...
View ArticleIndigenous education: a silent success story
By the end of this year, about 25,000 Indigenous people will have graduated from Australian universities. Less than three decades ago, there were fewer than 300 Indigenous graduates in tertiary...
View ArticleTwitter goes tertiary
DePaul University in the US will be starting what it calls "the first college-level journalism course focused solely on Twitter". Is that really something to brag about? Surprisingly, yes, says Gawker,...
View ArticleLeft and right? Just the beginning of the complexities of student politics
How could hordes of bright-eyed Melbourne Uni students, with their liberal arts educations and asymmetrical haircuts, willingly sign their representation away to conservatives? They didn't, writes...
View ArticleHas the great Indian student bubble burst?
Speculation that the flood of Indian students into Australian education institutions (not to mention the $2 billion they bring to the economy each year) is about to dry up has generated alarm in...
View ArticleUniversity reform: yes — but what is it for?
Australian universities have completely lost their vocational or operational autonomy, and will continue to be wagged by the dog of economic and other concerns tangential to their traditional aims,...
View ArticleWas Melbourne Model stoush behind the Law dean’s departure?
A damning series of internal documents obtained by Crikey reveals widespread anger from within Melbourne Uni's law faculty over changes that would have seen professional staff sacked and replaced with...
View ArticleIll will across Melbourne uni claims another victim
The stoush between staff and senior management at the University of Melbourne has claimed its second victim after the chief architect of the university's controversial internal restructuring process...
View ArticleUniversity of Melbourne spinning themselves a lie on VCA
Management and spin doctors are in denial over the unpopular changes to the Victorian College of the Arts, writes Scott Dawkins.
View ArticleMelbourne Muddle: elite students turning away from law in droves
Elite students are turning away from the once-prestigious Melbourne University law school in droves, shunning the Melbourne Model in favour of not only long-time rival Monash, but also RMIT and Deakin...
View ArticleWork hard for permanent residency? Why bother?
An anonymous reader lets exposes the second-rate hospitality training given to international students hoping to gain permanent residency in Australia.
View ArticleAll those journalism graduates … all these jobs
It might seem that a journalism degree is a sure-fire path to a life of blogging about your experiences at Centrelink, says Chris Scanlon, yet enrolments in the country’s journalism courses have been...
View ArticleAustralian unis infiltrated by organised crime?
The Oz has its hands on a confidential government report that reveals overseas organised crime outfits are attempting to "shoehorn illegal migrants into the country as fee-paying students" via student...
View ArticleHow to con your way into Harvard
Like a real-life Talented Mr Ripley, 23-year-old Adam Wheeler bluffed his way into Harvard, picking up tens thousands of dollars in grants and scholarships. And he would've got away with it, too, but...
View ArticleA hex on graduates staying at home
The Murdoch Sundays were on the track of student bludgers at the weekend -- professional students who keep racking up HECS debts by taking one degree after another without ever getting a proper job to...
View ArticleWho needs four uni degrees or even one for that matter?
For too long Australia has been gripped by the ridiculous notion that the more people finishing high school, the more people attending university, the richer and more productive our country will...
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