“A terrible part of the Job Ready Graduates will be overturned, yet students have been completely ignored in other demands,” said SRC President Lia Perkins.
Amid a rebound in the student experience post-lockdown, major universities in the Go8 underperform, with the University of Sydney being third worst in the country, and the worst for international students, in a major national survey.
Wentworth’s eventual replacement is predicted to be a much larger building, with commercial floors, food vendors, and a new home for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP).
The “SU” is the name given to the State Educational Grant in Denmark — a no-strings-attached monthly allowance that all Danes above the age of 18 are entitled to receive for their university studies. The amount can vary, but tends to be the equivalent of A$700 per month, providing significant help to students amidst the steep cost of living in Denmark.
I remember mentally flicking through all of the training and study I had done throughout my degree, hoping desperately that there might be something, anything, on how to respond in the given situation. Alas, I came up with nothing.
The Maitri Programme is a bilateral agreement to ensure degrees from each country will be recognised in the other.
The $1.04 billion surplus recorded at the University of Sydney was easily the largest recorded by a single institution. USyd was followed by the University of Melbourne, with a $584 million surplus, and the University of Queensland with a $332 million surplus.
Yasmine’s journey took her full circle from university, TAFE, back to higher education and doing what she loves the most — the art of arranging flowers.
“The struggle for Darlington is a struggle not only for the preservation of tangible reminders of our past, but also the struggle for the right of individuals and communities to decide their own future.” - Darlington Public School, 1878-1978.
Knowledge deemed ‘useless’ may offer fulfilment and freedom that our capitalist system finds difficult to fathom.