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    QUT

    April

    International student Mai Le says her goal is to achieve permanent residency after she graduates.

    Steep rise in student visa rejections ‘scaring applicants away’

    News of the federal government’s clampdown on student visas is spreading far and wide and the US is becoming the destination of choice.

    • Julie Hare

    February

    The University of Sydney would be the single largest contributor to the federal government’s proposed infrastructure fund.

    Unis that would pay the most – and the least – under ‘envy tax’ plan

    Just six of the country’s 41 universities would bankroll half of the annual contributions to the higher education future fund proposed in the Albanese government’s universities accord.

    • Julie Hare

    September 2023

    UNSW leaps to top in rank for excellence

    A mix of sandstone and non-sandstone universities make up this year’s finalists in the quality category.

    • Alexandra Cain

    August 2023

    Winning strategy: Collaboration leads the way in industry engagement

    Comment provided by the winner of the Industry Engagement award, QUT.

    • Sara Couperthwaite

    QUT partnership fuels renewables expansion

    A partnership between QUT and industry leads the way with critical mineral production

    • Sian Powell
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    Education minister Jason Clare says he will remove the politics from the awarding of research grants.

    ‘No political plaything’: Labor to end research grant veto

    Changes to the Australian Research Council will ensure government ministers cannot veto grants at whim.

    • Julie Hare

    July 2023

    Boards pull back on investment amid slowing economy

    BOSS this week met with boardroom heavyweights from some of our largest companies around the country who warned the economy is in “very mixed” shape.

    • Patrick Durkin and Anthony Macdonald
    Chairman of Hesta Nicola Roxon at the BOSS director roundtable.

    Nicola Roxon ‘cross’ that business avoiding the Voice

    Australia’s first female Attorney-General and Labor MP turned company director has made an impassioned plea for business not to abrogate its responsibilities on the Voice.

    • Patrick Durkin

    June 2023

    Sydney University is leading the field in converting casual academic roles to permanent tenured positions.

    Sydney Uni sets agenda for new academic roles

    Two years of protracted negotiations at Sydney University have resulted in 330 new permanent roles with similar moves in other universities.

    • Julie Hare

    March 2023

    Professor Claire Macken - RMIT

    Universities marching towards gender parity by degrees

    Many structural barriers are coming down but there is still a long way to go before women achieve a fairer outcome in academia.

    • Julie Hare

    February 2023

    The CEO of the Digital Health Co-operative Research centre Annette Schmiede has called for an end to the culture of fear that is stopping sharing of health data.

    ‘Culture of fear’ keeps health data locked away

    The lack of clear national rules to enable the sharing of data from across the health sector is stymying research efforts, an expert says.

    • Tom Burton

    December 2022

    Jackie French, Director of Faculty Creative Arts and Digital Design at TAFE Queensland with  Brendan Hopper, CBA’s  Chief Information Officer for Technology and   CBA’s General Manager HR for Technology Miriam Fox at Mt Gravatt TAFE . Picture by Paul Harris. Monday 5 December 2022 Jackie French, Director of Faculty Creative Arts and Digital Design at TAFE Queensland with Brendan Hopper, CBA’s Chief Information Officer for Technology and CBA’s General Manager HR for Technology Miriam Fox at Mt Gravatt TAFE.

    CBA’s plan to lure Queensland’s best techies

    CBA’s technology chief says he has been “stealthily” hiring in Queensland as the bank opens a new hub for tech workers in Brisbane.

    • Tess Bennett
    “I’m a quiet achiever,” says QUT vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil, who is heading a government review into the Australian Research Council.

    Push to rebuild trust in the research council

    Margaret Sheil is not cowed by the enormity of her task in rebuilding confidence in the Australian Research Council after years of political interference.

    • Julie Hare

    November 2022

    Vald co-founders Sam James and Laurie Malone at the company’s workshop in Brisbane.

    Brisbane sports tech raises $36m after ditching IPO plans

    “You realise being listed isn’t as exciting as the brokers suggest,” says the chief executive of Vald.

    • Tess Bennett
    Education should always be seen through the lens of students, not institutions, says Peter Coaldrake.

    Coaldrake wins education lifetime achievement award

    Professor Coaldrake is famously a team player. He says there is nothing about his success that “was ever in the first-person singular”.

    • Julie Hare
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    October 2022

    QUT is one of only three universities that increased its estimate of how many students would enrol in 2022.

    Unis suffer as older workers opt for jobs over study

    The short-term outlook for demand for university study is very soft with mature age students, which normally account for half the intake, opting for work over a degree.

    • Julie Hare

    February 2022

    Paid internships help attract the best beginner teachers, says Toni Riordan, principal of St Aidan’s Anglican Girls College in Brisbane.

    Unis ‘should be punished’ for producing poor-quality teachers

    Universities that produce teachers who can’t teach reading or manage classrooms must be penalised, says a new report.

    • Julie Hare

    December 2021

    Australia has among the highest rates of private school attendance in the developed world.

    Buy now, pay later normalises high school fees: academic

    A QUT academic has raised the alarm on financial solutions such as buy now, pay later encouraging families to take on debt to fund private school education.

    • Julie Hare

    November 2021

    Harvey Norman CEO Katie Page is the latest inductee into the Queensland Business Hall of Fame.

    Brickbats for Gerry, bouquets for Katie

    Gerry Harvey thinks he’s been “bullied” about his booming business’ JobKeeper haul, but CEO Katie Page can’t be feeling the heat.

    • Myriam Robin

    April 2021

    While the swellings are benign, they can be mistaken for cancer that has spread from the breast to the lymph node.

    COVID-19 vaccines may interfere with breast cancer screening

    After a vaccine, a temporary swelling under the arm that got the jab may be mistaken for cancer that has spread from the breast to the lymph node.

    • Jill Margo