As thousands of West Australian graduates wait to learn if they have been accepted into university,WAtoday has crunched the numbers on which courses are the most sought after.
Murdoch University’s global search for a new vice chancellor will see the return of University of Western Australia academic and the first Australian to lead an Irish university,Professor Andrew J Deeks.
A sense of change in the Fremantle Doctor is blowing through Murdoch University’s Bush Court as most of the former executive under ex-vice chancellor Eeva Leinonen are swept away,with improved academic oversight taking shape.
The comments came after WA chief scientist Peter Klinken proposed the idea to amalgamate ECU,the University of Western Australia,Curtin University,and Murdoch University to form a single entity.
Once university management and former auditor of Australian universities,Dr Michael Tomlinson knows the difficulty of ‘herding’ academic opinion but sees increasing value in them.
Four student service areas are under a cloud as the university descends Times Higher Education’s latest rankings in a further sign of depleted outcomes.
Murdoch University interim vice chancellor Romy Lawson informed the senate on Tuesday she would leave at the end of the year.
As the first person in my family to ever attend a university,my naivety in trusting institutes to provide nourishment in the form of high-quality education was sorely misplaced.
WA’s universities are in the thick of a crisis that the McGowan government should address right away to ensure they live up to noble expectations set out for them under state law.
What’s the point of actually going to university if there’s no one interesting to learn from,let alone with an international reputation in something like the politics of climate change?
A proposal aims to drastically reduce the number of people working on international affairs and the politics and societies of the Indo-Pacific. Meanwhile,the area has become more important than ever.