When Uta Wille was working towards her PhD in Germany in the late 1980’s, she swiftly learnt that being a young woman in a scientific field required resilience. Her research group was a sea of twenty men. Her [...]
Pathophysiology is a complex and sometimes overwhelming topic for students. Being able to answer the question “why is my patient experiencing this?” is vital for our graduate nurses and clinical practitioners. They need to identify and understand how to [...]
Imagine you're a first-year chemistry student. What does your semester of General Chemistry look like? Well, it's usually heavily content driven – after all, there's a lot of theoretical science to learn. The fundamentals of molecular science is a [...]
Psychology is predominantly taught from a Western perspective. However, when helping our students to become clinic-ready psychologists in our multicultural society, it’s become clear that students need cross-cultural graduate attributes. Dr Kelly Prandl, clinical psychologist and associate at Curtin University, has the rewarding [...]
Technology is changing the way accountants work Traditionally, accounting courses focused on giving students the knowledge to provide accounting services – e.g. money management, financial recording, reporting, tax and auditing. While the need to know the theory and [...]
In the last two decades, higher education has come to embrace blended learning as the most effective way to engage students. Within law faculties – particularly in response to COVID-19 – this uptake has accelerated as more lecturers recognise the [...]
Can you tell whether the articles you read have been written by Artificial Intelligence (AI)? For all you know, an AI language generator could be behind every word of this blog – a tool that paraphrases and rewrites what [...]
With many questions surrounding what 2021 will look like for the Higher Education community, it can be hard to know how to plan for the coming year. Whether we see a return to campus, fully online semesters, or [...]
Physics can be a difficult subject for students to begin to wrap their minds around – with its complex mathematics and back catalogue of theories, formulas and more, it can be hard to know what will capture both student [...]
Growing the number of women in STEM is a focus in Australia and around the globe. Only 20% of students that complete tertiary STEM education in Australia are female, which results in them being underrepresented in the STEM [...]