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Peter Mellow
February 2, 2016 4:33 PM
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Troubled times call for strong leaders – so with tough challenges ahead, higher education needs to be looking forward
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Peter Mellow
December 2, 5:01 PM
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Boarding schools in Australia are diverse, and not like Hogwarts or other caricatures.
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Peter Mellow
November 11, 4:28 PM
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People without university-educated parents are 36% likely to enrol in degree, compared with 59% of students whose parents are tertiary educated
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Peter Mellow
November 1, 12:21 PM
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The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
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Peter Mellow
October 27, 10:17 PM
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Sorry, Baby and After the Hunt have put graduate research – and its ethical grey areas – on the screen.
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Peter Mellow
October 20, 6:10 PM
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Once complete, the new UNSW campus will be an education hub for thousands of students and staff, and is expected to provide a much-needed injection to the city's economy.
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Peter Mellow
October 19, 10:10 PM
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Shutting out China’s best minds will only push them into a homegrown Chinese research ecosystem that is eclipsing American universities.
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Peter Mellow
October 8, 11:04 PM
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Times Higher Eduction ranks university as 37th in the world, with five other Australian schools in top 100
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Peter Mellow
October 4, 7:52 PM
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The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.
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Peter Mellow
September 29, 6:39 PM
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Students and experts are calling for fundamental reform of the VCE, arguing it’s no longer fit for purpose.
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Peter Mellow
September 20, 12:19 AM
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College is not just about transmitting knowledge—it’s also about learning and practicing the skills that connect us to one another.
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Peter Mellow
September 19, 11:58 PM
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The bipartisan committee’s advice about executive pay and transparency measures come after several high-profile controversies at Australian universities.
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Peter Mellow
September 11, 7:26 PM
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With the university sector in crisis, thousands face losing their jobs as unions blame poor management and students say they've lost hope.
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Peter Mellow
December 14, 6:43 PM
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For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
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Peter Mellow
November 23, 5:51 PM
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A lack of gender diversity in maths means technologies such as AI and quantum computing are mainly designed by – and for – men.
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Peter Mellow
November 1, 12:22 PM
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Higher education can—and should—fight the Trump administration, but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close.
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Peter Mellow
October 31, 1:04 AM
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Gisborne Girls’ High School principal Jan Kumar will retire at the year’s end after starting her career there teaching science in 1987. Kumar says sh
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Peter Mellow
October 22, 5:31 PM
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Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says, ‘if you don’t think there are challenges in university governance, you’ve been living under a rock’.
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Peter Mellow
October 20, 6:06 PM
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At Arizona State University, residents pay about $500,000 in entrance fees to live on campus and take classes alongside undergraduates.
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Peter Mellow
October 14, 6:00 PM
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A student threatened to come to the teacher’s house and rape her. He was not suspended.
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Peter Mellow
October 6, 5:43 PM
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A new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind.
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Peter Mellow
October 4, 7:52 PM
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Prestige isn’t permanent.
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Peter Mellow
September 20, 12:24 AM
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University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten has called for a “fundamental re-imagining” of Australia’s universities
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Peter Mellow
September 20, 12:10 AM
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Australia’s forlorn tertiary education system needs a massive overhaul, as do the people running it.
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Peter Mellow
September 14, 9:38 PM
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It’s not every day that the students and staff of a university succeed in forcing a vice-chancellor from office — that’s what happened last week at ANU, but why did change take so long when it was clearly necessary?
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Peter Mellow
September 5, 9:31 PM
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It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost
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This is one of my most favourite TED talks. Funny and they archive some real educational results for children.