Learning la vida loca
Imagine a subject where you select your assignment topics, how you present them and the questions on your final exam. For Contemporary Latin(o) Americas students, this dream is a reality. What’s more,...
View ArticleChina awards UTS as a leading overseas partner
China's support centre for international student exchange has named UTS among its best overseas partners.UTS was the only Australian university to receive a 2014 Best Overseas Partner University award...
View ArticleSix-star building for five-star health and science learning and research opens
Six prized stars for sustainable design have been awarded to the third major building in the University of Technology Sydney's billion-dollar City Campus Master Plan by the Green Building Council of...
View ArticleNew building supports education and research to foster healthy minds and bodies
Research and postgraduate education in pharmacy, psychology and orthoptics will be uniquely integrated with special clinics accessible to the public at the University of Technology Sydney's newest...
View ArticleSuper labs, living labs and simulated crime scenes fuel UTS science education...
A super lab accommodating 220 students, high-tech research technologies, a forensic crime scene simulation lab and a living "green roof" for biological research feature in the University of Technology...
View ArticleUTS leaps into the world's top 50 in communication and media
UTS features amongst the world's elite institutions in 12 of the 36 subjects featured in this year's QS World University Rankings by Subject.The standout achievement for 2015 is the "communication and...
View ArticleAward winner giving back to international students at UTS
International students are set to benefit from the 2015 Betty Makin Youth Award presented recently to UTS Communications alumna Jiani (Laura) Liu by the City of Sydney.Liu, one of three individual...
View ArticleUTS leads Australian charge in young universities world ranking
UTS is the new number one in Australia in the Times Higher Education THE 100 Under 50 rankings for 2015 – an analysis of the world's top 100 universities under 50 years of age.Australia has emerged as...
View ArticleThe storyteller
Philip McLaren has never been afraid of a good yarn. Now, with his return to UTS, the award-winning author is working to uncover Australia’s forgotten past and to help us shape our future.“Aboriginal...
View ArticleArchitect brings major public design experience to UTS
One of Australia's leading infrastructure experts, architect David Holm, has been appointed an adjunct professor at the UTS School of Architecture. Holm is also a director at one of the largest...
View ArticleRewarding Sydney trip for winning Indian students
A resource connecting farmers to crucial information on everything from crop prices to rain patterns saw three high school students from New Delhi jetting to Sydney recently as winners of the 2014 UTS...
View ArticleVolunteers a light on the hill for remote island community
English language teachers Maria Greenaway, Sandra Laight and Andrew Williams credit a famous proverb for guiding their approach to mentoring teachers at a remote school in the Solomon Islands."We see...
View ArticleStudents inspired to see their future in computer code
In the wake of computer coding education drawing some focus in Federal Parliament more than 800 high school students from around 30 Sydney schools gathered in UTS's Great Hall on Friday for Microsoft's...
View ArticlePower of apps in preschool literacy
Australia is a diverse, multilingual country, with more than 200 languages spoken. However, fewer second-generation Australians speak their parents’ mother tongues than in some other Western...
View ArticleDelegation visit marks expanded UTS engagement with China
The visit of a senior Chinese delegation to UTS earlier this week marked the forging of new relationships with two Chinese universities.The delegation, headed by His Excellency Mr Hu Chunhua, a senior...
View ArticleVisible and vocal
Social media has revolutionised the way we access and share information online. Once considered frivolous and purely ‘social’, academics are now using social media as a fast and interactive way to...
View ArticleUTS students help Visa imagine what's next for wearable technology
The future of payments isn't just a matter of what technology might make possible, a crucial factor will be understanding what's going to work for a public still getting used to the idea of using...
View ArticleNational honour for a distinguished leader in higher education
Professor Ross Milbourne, who retired as UTS Vice-Chancellor just under a year ago, was named an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in yesterday's Queen's Birthday Honours...
View ArticleInternational careers fair puts the focus on China
UTS Chinese students networked with prospective employers at UTS's first International Careers Fair focusing specifically on the China region. The recent event offered more than 150 jobs for future...
View ArticleUTS mourns passing of Vale Emeritus Professor Ronald Werner AM
The UTS community has been saddened by news of the death of Emeritus Professor Ronald Werner who was a former Director, and then later President, of NSW Institute of Technology (NSWIT).NSWIT was one of...
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