The most sought-after WA university degrees in 2022

The most sought-after WA university degrees in 2022

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.

  • byLauren Pilat

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Murdoch University appoints UWA engineer and Dublin uni president as vice chancellor

Murdoch University appoints UWA engineer and Dublin uni president as vice chancellor

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.

  • byAja Styles
Is Murdoch University changing its culture? An executive and governance shakeup is afoot
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Analysis

Is Murdoch University changing its culture? An executive and governance shakeup is afoot

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.

  • byAja Styles
Merging WA’s universities an ‘appalling idea’:ECU vice chancellor

Merging WA’s universities an ‘appalling idea’:ECU vice chancellor

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.

  • byLauren Pilat
Opportunity knocks for WA unis to reset targets since losing foreign student ‘punchbowl’
Opinion
Opinion

Opportunity knocks for WA unis to reset targets since losing foreign student ‘punchbowl’

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.

  • byMichael Tomlinson
Murdoch Uni slashes job security in student services,hits rankings doldrums
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University

Murdoch Uni slashes job security in student services,hits rankings doldrums

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.

  • byAja Styles
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Murdoch University’s interim vice chancellor resigns after one month in role

Murdoch University’s interim vice chancellor resigns after one month in role

Murdoch University interim vice chancellor Romy Lawson informed the senate on Tuesday she would leave at the end of the year.

  • byLauren Pilat
Why uni students are not pots of gold and need better alma maters in WA
Opinion
University

Why uni students are not pots of gold and need better alma maters in WA

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.

  • byMichael Hough
Dear Mark McGowan,you wouldn’t ask this of a mining company
Opinion
University

Dear Mark McGowan,you wouldn’t ask this of a mining company

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.

  • byGerd Schröder-Turk
A university sells its soul to appease Australia’s resources sector
Opinion
University

A university sells its soul to appease Australia’s resources sector

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?

  • byMark Beeson
The think-tanks at WA’s most prestigious universities are being eroded

The think-tanks at WA’s most prestigious universities are being eroded

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.

  • byMark Beeson