UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES – WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Uni place offers slide 27pc

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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

Rookie doctors set record on front line

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Original article by Cathy O’Leary
The West Australian – Page: 5 : 15-Jan-15

The number of junior doctors undertaking their internships in Western Australian hospitals will rise from 312 in 2014 to a record 324 in 2015. About 290 of the new graduates undertook their medical studies at the state’s universities. Health Minister Kim Hames notes that the number of doctors who were trained in the state has doubled since 2008. Meanwhile, Curtin University has advised that its proposed medical school at Midland is unlikely to open before 2017. It was originally mooted to open in 2009

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL, PERTH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL, HOLLYWOOD PRIVATE HOSPITAL, PEEL HEALTH CAMPUS, JOONDALUP HEALTH CAMPUS

UWA credits for volunteering

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Original article by Bethany Hiatt
The West Australian – Page: 13 : 2-Dec-14

Students at the University of Western Australia will be able to gain six credit points for undertaking volunteer work organised by a new citizenship centre. The centre will be financed by the McCusker Charitable Foundation, whose four trustees are graduates of the university. The trustees hope that the scheme will encourage students to continue to do voluntary work after they graduate

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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, McCUSKER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, VOLUNTEERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Uni graduate sues over thesis ‘leak’

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Original article by Elle Farcic
The West Australian – Page: 9 : 13-Nov-14

Engineering graduate Mohan Singh is seeking compensation from the University of Western Australia. He alleges that the university failed to protect his rights as the owner of his final year thesis on a high-performance material. The university allegedly breached a confidentiality agreement signed with Singh in recognition of the thesis’s commercial value

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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, CSIRO

UWA given thumbs down for teaching

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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