Forget the stereotype of the millennial choosing to work in the gig economy for the flexibility it offers – the chief economist for leading online job site, Indeed, says...
Education
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A cloud-based student assessment tool to support teachers; a universal student identifier that tracks children through 13 years of school; and data-driven innovation from schools themselves are among the...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Princeton, and Berkeley were just some of the top universities that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) outranked in its top ten...
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For every dollar that a business invests in collaborative university research, it reaps $4.50. But the nation needs another 8,000 businesses to get on board if Australia is going...
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Australia’s first all-girl robotics team, Team 4802, also known as Unidentified Moving Machines (UMM) from western Sydney’s Blacktown Girls High School (BGHS), may be just 20 days out from...
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Malcolm Turnbull says Australia would continue to look to Singapore for smart city development ideas and inspirations. Speaking to media at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit on Friday, the Prime...
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The new boss of the Australian Signals Directorate has come down hard on Federal agency chiefs who don’t put strong cyber risk management strategies in place. ASD director Mike...
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All public primary school students in South Australia will be taught coding and entrepreneurship as part of a near-$7 million state government election pitch. If re-elected in next month,...
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At a time where the Australian government has tightened access to temporary skills visas and the country is facing a widening technical skills shortage, companies need to consider how...
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The independence of Australian and other western universities with fully-fledged sister universities, joint ventures, campuses and research institutes in China is under attack from Beijing after Xi Jinping’s regime...
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Increasing levels of automation and woeful NBN performance are driving a deep digital divide across Australia, according to Unions NSW secretary Mark Morey. “I read some figures recently where...
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Far from being the harbingers of doom for professional services, the pending arrival of machine learning and artificial intelligence-based automation tools will open up new opportunities for the sector,...
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The Business Council of Australia wants the local workforce to be skilled up and kept that way through more vocational education and an ambitious lifelong training plan, less we’ll...
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Innovation and Science Australia chairman Bill Ferris’ aim to hand his 2030 Strategic Plan for the nation’s industry development policies to government this week has been thwarted by circumstance....