CAREER AND EDUCATION NEWS

New Indigenous employment ‘one-stop-shops’
Group Training Australia (GTA) has welcomed the launch of a new policy from GenerationOne, which would trial ‘one-stop-shops’ for unemployed Indigenous people to help them to gain training and employment.
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Learning to know and do
Starting with recognition of what students ‘know’ and ‘can do’, a Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic explains how research can impact teaching, and vice versa, in a modern Australian university.
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Technology could lead to Tweets in the classroom
Teachers should not be afraid of the technology boom associated with Generation Y, according to a researcher from Southern Cross University.
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Monash students world's best debaters, again
Two persuasive Monash University students have taken out the World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) for the second year in a row, beating teams from Oxford, Stanford and the University of Sydney.
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Summit aims to spark female engineering interests
Young women with a keen interest in science and mathematics are exploring the vast array of opportunities a career in engineering has to offer at this week’s Women in Engineering Summit being held at the University of Wollongong.
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