brendan's university news

[brendan]

A rough guide to all the Victorian universities:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22823898-5011680,00.html

[brendan]

University of Queensland scraps med interviews

[brendan]

Casual teachers inflating grades: academics
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/casual-teachers-inflating-grades-academics/2007/12/06/1196812922150.html
"THE rising proportion of casual lecturers at universities has been linked to inflated grades for students.

This is because there is often nobody to moderate the way that each marker is assessing students' work and to ensure all students are being judged by the same standards."

[brendan]

Graduate Careers Australia’s (GCA) annual Australian Graduate Survey (AGS) is a study of the activities of new higher education graduates around four months after the completion of their qualifications. In the 2007 AGS, new graduates were surveyed regarding their major activities, including full-time study, full- or part-time employment, seeking employment or their unavailability for work or study.

GradFiles provides information about recently qualified bachelor degree graduates for students who are considering higher education. It will also be helpful for their parents and the secondary school community. A bachelor degree is an initial higher education qualification and is usually the first qualification after secondary school.

http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/download/3465/14505/file/Grad%20Files%202007.pdf

[Ninox]

"Seven-year-old seeks university place"

jeebers creepers! now that kid's got brains. I wonder how long it'll be before his first uni party hangover...
Hope he enjoys what's left of his childhood though, with that kind of talent he might run a little short on playtime.

[sheepz]

i think hes lost his childhood already... i mean cmon A levels at 7 years old =.= the competition in normal education in s'pore is enuf to kill sum1 d!

[Collin Li]

I hope he maximises the use of his talent, and doesn't delve into too much nihilist philosophy that could possibly lead to suicide (i.e.: ignorance is bliss, stupid stuff like that).

Pragmatism and existentialism please

[Mao]

Pragmatism and existentialism please

my life is the sum of all my choices?
i am essentially alone.....

lol

[Benny]

University of Queensland scraps med interviews

A move in the right direction.

[costargh]

Costargh's University News

New-look Melbourne Uni slips in rankings
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22728984-5005961,00.html


Dentists top young earners [ List of university graduates and salaries after Uni ]
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22909934-662,00.html

Argh... in the actual paper there was a table which appears to be missing from the online article. Soz
As a replacement... here is a table of salaries from the Graduates Careers Australia website.
http://www.graduatecareers.com.au
^^^ Link to site
http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/download/3465/14505/file/Grad%20Files%202007.pdf
^^^ Link to document that has information summarised including salaries, satisfaction, employment rates etc.
As a substitute to the table in the article which appears to be missing, here is a screenshot of the table from the original source.

[Collin Li]

Yay, chemical engineering seems to get paid not bad for starting salary (but I'm not really sure about how my salary will progress as my career develops).

[enwiabe]

It will stagnate at $60k. Sorry. jk With that commerce degree, you'll be in a management position earning >$200k in no time.

[maxleng]

why was my post deleted?

stop being such a mod-nazi, these forums will turn to shit

the best forums i frequent have a very loose mod enforcing policy and thats what makes them good, becuase people say what they want and its not deleted.

whats so bad about saying costargh's post was better than brendan's post? its the truth, its set out better and actualy makes you click on the link...

[Collin Li]

I agree. I don't know what happened, there was a whole page ahead of this, with links too, I believe.

[costargh]

I concur