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Working the online space
Drawing on her background in building successful start-ups in the corporate service industry, Denice Pitt leads Swinburne’s new joint venture with jobs website SEEK providing degree programs online.
IT tools give maths pizzazz
Research shows smart use of new technologies is boosting maths skills.
Electric buzz hits the road
It looks like any other Formula SAE racing car, but in the name of advancing electric car development Swinburne engineering students have replaced the standard petrol motor with a 60kW three-phase electric motor.
New engineers solve 21st century problems
Recognising the need for skills to help manufacturers respond to today's global and sustainability challenges, Swinburne University of Technology is training a new style of engineer.
Creative engineers find market niche
Swinburne engineering education innovation is providing Australian manufacturers with sought-after product design skills.Team builder’s goal is to deliver quality of life
Universities can no longer avoid the responsibility to lead; to become the modern town hall where debate happens, where controversial subjects can be examined with a bipartisan reach for the best evidence that is available … to help shift the national culture to implicitly value education and research and think beyond being just a mine and a beach,” says Swinburne Vice Chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson.
Blind dates we need to take
At Swinburne we have long been committed to making a difference. We take very seriously our responsibility to ensure that our graduates have the awareness and insight, as well as the knowledge and skills, to address the challenges that confront us.
Healthy living switch a tough solo task
Community support groups promoting healthier lifestyles may be the key to helping thousands of ageing Australians delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Industry meets academia through engaged learning
Recognising the importance of job-ready graduates, Swinburne is embedding industry engaged learning (IEL) into every undergraduate degree.
Virtual class shares real lessons
Students of the digital age now make up the majority of tertiary learners, so it would seem logical to use the web-based social networks these students are already familiar with as learning tools.
PBs to raise the achievement bar
A trial of a 'personal best' approach to education may provide a new way of lifting the motivation of students.
Scheme builds TAFE–university bridge
Undergraduate places are being automatically offered to all higher-level TAFE students at Swinburne University of Technology following introduction of its Guaranteed Entry Scheme (GES).
Monstrous idea spawns industry giant
The Swinburne graduate who brought dinosaurs back to life regards himself as more pragmatist than artist. And the commercial results are dazzling.
New course embeds sustainability in educational practice
Swinburne’s National Centre for Sustainability has developed and is now teaching Australia’s first accredited course in education and training for sustainability.
Education’s role in driving sustainability
Swinburne University of Technology’s sense of responsibility in preparing tomorrow’s leaders for the challenges of a rapidly changing, interconnected world means we are embracing a broad concept of sustainability, one that includes interrelated environmental, socio-cultural and financial dimensions.
Swinburne Sustainability Strategy: more than just another policy document
The Swinburne Sustainability Strategy – Swinburne’s commitment to sustainability – has a set of outcome measures that will ensure all Swinburne courses embed sustainability and that 50 per cent of staff are upskilled by 2015.
Tradies turn a greener shade
Through ‘green’ training on water-wise plumbing and irrigation systems, recycled greywater and solar insulation Swinburne University of Technology is helping to prepare Australia for a more sustainable, low-carbon future.
Social inclusion bridging the gap
Through programs and innovations at both higher education and TAFE level, Swinburne is proactively linking contemporary Australia, education, Indigenous culture and community development.
Cultural pride helps education start making sense
A Swinburne TAFE program run in partnership with Aboriginal organisations in Victoria is helping to create some stability for disadvantaged Indigenous youths
An Australian tissue engineer in Paris
Swinburne's first Cotutelle PhD student researched biodegradable polymers, which could be used to form the next generation of stents used to treat cardiovascular disease.
Human antennae tuned to the future
The future can both excite and terrify as it draws us forward, demanding we fill in its blank canvas moment by moment. Helping people to master that forward journey is the role of ‘strategic foresight’
Learning for all
'The clever country' was a political quip that came to symbolise a forlorn hope. Now that ambition has been revived as a priority for sustaining Australia's social and economic vitality.
Learning springs from Dr Mazzolini's box of tricks
Simple, tactile experiments are a popular way to learn physics, especially if your school happens to be in a developing country far from modern facilities.
School’s in for smarter emotions
Measures of emotional intelligence are being adapted for use in the classroom to help both students and teachers cope with modern stresses.
Collaboration is the currency in our knowledge-based economy
Australia’s economic prosperity rests on the important contributions made by Australian universities – a point highlighted in recent reviews of the Australian Innovation System and higher education. Without creating knowledge and developing innovative minds we will not thrive in the 21st century.
Learning space turns school design inside out
Progressive schools are ditching the traditional classroom in favour of purpose-designed learning spaces, and a new Swinburne-led project is examining whether there is a link between classroom design and innovative teaching.
Information delivery drives Australia’s internet use
Whether checking the weather, doing their banking, or searching for recipe ideas, Australians are using the internet as an important information resource.
Research and education focus drive rapid development
Tertiary education and research are the intellectual foundation on which Australia’s future rests and the motivation driving Swinburne University of Technology’s rapid development.
On the surface it’s a love of engineering
A year 12 art subject ignited a passion for bioengineering for Sally McArthur. Now, the recently appointed Swinburne Associate Professor plans to explore bio-mimicry, where natural effects are recreated synthetically.
Skills shortage creates increased demand for job-ready graduates
The first wide-ranging study of work-integrated learning in Australia has been completed and reveals the benefits and challenges of this widespread approach to university teaching.
Learning on the job
Gone are the days when university students sat sponge-like in lecture theatres absorbing the words spoken at them. Career assistance, work placements and an array of electives designed to improve generic work skills are making today’s students more job-ready than ever.
Agency audit raises higher education bar
Professional 'real-world' learning, enthusiastic staff, strong research, vision and efforts to export education worldwide have been highlighted in Swinburne's latest quality audit.
Language the bridge across a strange new world
A look inside the Adult Migrant English Program offered at Swinburne University of Technology shows a microcosm of the issues migrants and refugees face after arriving in Australia.
World view shapes a clever ambition
Vice-Chancellor Ian Young has set Swinburne on course to become a globally recognised research university
The Future By Design
From the 1960s, an influential movement involving the marriage of old and new media was 'Fluxus', a global network of experimental artists and designers. One of its central figures, American academic Ken Friedman, has moved to Australia to chart a new course for design education.
Cosmos calls to student in cyberspace
Swinburne Astronomy Online students are among the pioneers of a future space travel industry
Alumni memories bridge a century
George Swinburne had made his fortune in engineering, served as state minister for water and agriculture, and was well on his way to pouring £20,000 of his own money into Swinburne Technical College - his platform for education reform.
