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NSW “blueprint” to lift teaching standards
The Australian 30 July 2012 Australian Financial Review 30 July 2012 Aspiring teachers will have to study maths and science at school, and meet minimum entry scores, to qualify for a limited...
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La Trobe spares Indonesian but 37 jobs to go in humanities and social sciences
The Australian 11 August 2012 La Trobe University Fact Sheet 15 August 2012 La Trobe University has bowed to intense lobbying and retained Indonesian language in a revised cost-cutting...
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Survival guide for elite unis: smart budgeting and small class teaching
The Australian 24 August 2012 Universities face declining student demand in the face of online competitors which will erode income according to Warren Bebbington, the University of Adelaide’s...
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Call to overhaul teacher training
The Australian 29 August 2012 The recommendations of the Gonski review of school funding will fail to lift standards unless they are complemented by a transformation in teacher training, according to...
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The Scan Main Edition 30 August 2012
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ACER Higher Education Update
ACER Higher Education Update 10 – September 2012 Published bi-annually, the ACER Higher Education Update provides an overview of ACER’s contributions to higher education research and development. In...
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NSW education cuts in the “best interests of students”
ABC News 11 September 2012 Daily Telegraph 12 September 2012 The New South Wales Government has announced $1.7 billion worth of funding cuts across the education sector. It says 800...
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The Scan Main Edition Thursday 20 September 2012
Back to the future with workplace agreements? Australian Higher Education Industrial Association president and Curtin University vice-chancellor Jeanette Hacket says she would welcome a return to John...
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Sorry Vice-Chancellor, your humanities cuts will hurt La Trobe
By Virginia Mansel Lees, La Trobe University 18 September 2012 The cuts to the humanities and social sciences faculty at La Trobe University have been the source of much debate among the academic...
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Australian Financial Review 24 September 2012
The Australian Financial Review (AFR) has run a useful tertiary education section, with 5-6 items, in its Monday edition for some time. But with the appointment of Tim Dodd (formerly media director...
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