Uni place offers slide 27pc

Original article by Phoebe Wearne
The West Australian – Page: 11 : 16-Jan-15

Data from Western Australia’s Tertiary Institutions Service Centre show that 8,058 school-leavers have applied for places at the state’s universities in 2015. This is 32 per cent lower than in 2014, while the number of applications from non-school-leavers has fallen by 13.4 per cent. Meanwhile, the total number of university places offered by the state’s four public institutions has fallen by 27 per cent, to 11,560

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA. TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS SERVICE CENTRE, MURDOCH UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY

UWA given thumbs down for teaching

Original article by Bethany Hiatt
The West Australian – Page: 11 : 14-Aug-14

The 2014 edition of the "Good Universities Guide" rates the University of Western Australia (UWA) poorly in terms of the quality of teaching. The university has received one star on a five-star rating scale, while the state’s Edith Cowan University and Notre Dame University both received top ratings for the quality of their teaching. However, UWA was given five-star ratings on several measures

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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY, NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MURDOCH UNIVERSITY