Noticias Oceanía

Australia: Universities are facing an extraordinary attack. Students have to resist

Publicado: 9 octubre 2020

Australia/October 09, 2020/by Clare Francis/Source: https://redflag.org.au/ The Liberals’ “job-ready” education bill has passed the Senate. It represents one of the biggest attacks on access to higher education in decades. University fees will more than double for law, commerce and humanities courses. Struggling students who fail half of their units will lose their access to the HECS […]

Con 63 millones de maestros afectados por la crisis de la COVID-19, en el Día Mundial de los Docentes la UNESCO exhorta a que se aumente la inversión en el profesorado a fin de recuperar el aprendizaje

Publicado: 5 octubre 2020

UNESCO/06 de octubre 2020/Fuente: https://es.unesco.org/ En celebración de la función primordial de los docentes que han brindado apoyo a los estudiantes durante la pandemia de la COVID-19, el Día Mundial de los Docentes (5 de octubre) de este año pondrá de relieve la necesidad de mejorar la capacitación, el desarrollo profesional y las competencias de […]

Australia: UNHCR launches new portal with verified higher education opportunities for refugees

Publicado: 3 octubre 2020

Australia/October 03, 2020/Source: https://www.unhcr.org/ UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has launched a first-of-its kind platform providing verified information on higher education programs available to refugees worldwide. Developed in response to needs expressed by refugee students, the UNHCR Opportunities site intends to provide a global database of reliable, up-to-date information on refugee-eligible, scholarship programs both in their current […]

Australia: Jacqui Lambie to oppose Coalition’s university funding changes, saying poor kids ‘get a raw deal’

Publicado: 1 octubre 2020

Australia/October 01, 2020/By: Paul Karp and Katharine Murphy/Source: https://www.theguardian.com/ The crossbencher’s intervention leaves the Morrison government’s job-ready graduate package hanging by a thread. Jacqui Lambie has come out against the Coalition’s higher education funding changes, warning the bill “makes university life harder for poor kids and poor parents”. The intervention on Wednesday leaves the government’s job-ready graduate […]

India and Australia further Strengthens their Partnership on Skilling Agenda

Publicado: 1 octubre 2020

India and Australia/October 01, 2020/By India Education Diary Bureau Admin/Source: https://indiaeducationdiary.in/ Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship(MSDE) and High Commission of Australia holds meeting for Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training.In an endeavor to support Vocational Education and Training (VET) in India and Australia, the Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dr. MahendraNath Pandey and […]

New Zealand: Group calls for mandatory sexual consent education for tertiary students

Publicado: 26 septiembre 2020

New Zealand/September 25, 2020/By: Laura Wiltshire/Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/ A group is calling for sexual consent education to be made mandatory for all first-year tertiary education students in New Zealand, to help counter rates of sexual violence on campus. Thursdays in Black, a student-led group working towards a world without sexual violence, have launched a petition calling […]