Despite bleak employment outlooks, college graduates can take some simple steps to boost their chances of finding a job, a veteran career services counselor says.
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Automation does threaten jobs, but the most widely cited study exaggerates the effect and pointed to job losses in places where they didn’t happen.
The way humanities disciplines are taught at many universities does not lend itself to ready engagement with a changed and changing world.
Most Australian workers are fairly relaxed about their own job security, but they do worry about the risks of poor management and outsourcing to cheaper labour.
With most new jobs going to women, their workforce participation rate is growing at nine times the rate for men. But, while participation is on track for parity in a decade, pay is another matter.
There are many disappointments in the government’s response to Innovation and Science Australia’s report ‘Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation’.
In this book extract, Iram Siraj explains how to help kids get a leg up in a digital world by teaching them communication and other essential 21st century skills young.
We’re living in a time of rapid transformation in terms of what’s required for a country’s workforce. Design thinking is one way to prepare graduates for these changing times.
If universities work together they are more likely to find creative solutions to problems. Collaboration will allow them to benefit from the global academic community’s collective wisdom.
What are the issues facing rural and regional Australia? The challenges are many and varied – and only some have made the national political agenda – but these areas deserve better than neglect.
Before you go hating HR, ask yourself: what are the alternatives?
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Professor of Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Director, Centre for the New Workforce, Swinburne University of Technology
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Design Thinking Programme Manager, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Visiting Professor of Education, University of Wollongong
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Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Innovation & Change), Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer, Dept of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business & Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Management, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Director, POLIS: The ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne