UTS names Elizabeth Mossop new Dean of Design, Architecture and Building
Highly respected urbanist and landscape architect Professor Elizabeth Mossop has been appointed the next Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology...
View ArticleUTS students named future leaders
University of Technology Sydney students have been recognised as among Australia's future leaders in the 2016 GradConnection Top 100 Awards.The annual Future Leaders of Australia awards are the...
View ArticleForum tackles impact of equity scholarships
The role of equity scholarships and how they affect students' participation and success in higher education was addressed at a forum at UTS this week.Funded by the Commonwealth Government's Higher...
View ArticleResearch aims to optimise the study abroad experience
There aren't many study abroad programs in the world that support students for a full year overseas. In Australia the pioneer was UTS's International Studies program and in Hong Kong it was the...
View ArticleSydney’s new knowledge hub
As you walk up the brown-tiled stairs and through the aluminium-framed, glass double-doors at 622 Harris Street you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve stepped back in time.The foyer is lined with...
View ArticleCrude awakening
On 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. For three months, over 3.5 million litres of oil gushed from the well decimating 25 000 kilometres of coastline and the animals who lived...
View ArticleYindyamarra
It’s only been five years, but thanks to UTS’s Indigenous Education and Employment Policy, the university is changing. The latest initiative, Home@UTS, will offer 58 Indigenous students the option to...
View ArticleOut of the Fray
Peter Fray is back where the fun began, almost three decades ago. Mugging for the camera in the building that once housed The Sydney Morning Herald, the journalist turned academic is on a roll. Ideas,...
View ArticleCARE to make a change
Paper-pushers, or ‘robots’ who demonstrate little care or empathy – administration staff will be familiar with the stereotypes. Dig a little deeper however and you’ll discover most are definitely...
View ArticleThe world beats a path to the door for UTS Partner Day
UTS continues to strengthen its global exchange network after recently hosting 30 international study abroad and exchange partners on campus.Partner Day attracted representatives from 27 universities...
View ArticlePromoting social and emotional health in early childhood
In Hong Kong, despite recognition of the importance in promoting social and emotional health in the school system, schools have been slow to incorporate emotional health as part of mental health...
View ArticleInnovation springs from empathy in unique immersion experience
With all the talk about innovation what's often missing is an understanding of what it means for people according to the co-founder of an initiative that's allowed UTS students to experience the...
View ArticleUTS offers a new vision for orthoptics education
There's a great demand for orthoptists in Australia, particularly due to an aging population and the rise in eye conditions that are associated with age. Eye disorders and diseases are on an upward...
View ArticleStrong demand from women for MBA in Entrepreneurship
Australia's Assistant Minister for Innovation, Wyatt Roy, has welcomed the strong showing of women in Australia's first on-campus MBA in Entrepreneurship (MBAe), launched by the University of...
View ArticleUTS partners on national Respect.Now.Always campaign
UTS has joined with universities around the country in a campaign to ensure that students and staff are safe from sexual assault and sexual harassment.Launched by peak body Universities Australia,...
View ArticleUTS makes world top 50 in four subject areas
UTS ranks among the top 50 universities in the world in four subject areas, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016, released today.These subject areas as defined by QS are...
View ArticleUTS Screening of Most Likely To Succeed
For most of the last century entry-level jobs were plentiful in the US and college was an affordable path to a fulfilling career. That world no longer exists.Most Likely to Succeed examines the history...
View ArticleStudent award winner looks close to home for building services case study
UTS engineering student Lorna Hennessy didn't need to cast her gaze very far in deciding on the case study that has earned her the Student of the Year award from the Chartered Institution for Building...
View ArticleTwelve months on, UTS Hatchery fledglings take flight
A lot of store is being put in young entrepreneurs as government and pundits push Australia's prospects for an "ideas boom". Any hunt for case studies to support these hopes should include the UTS...
View ArticleSydney trip plenty of motivation for IT comp winners
The idea of an employee motivation calculator has won a group of high school students from India a trip to Sydney. The three students from Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai have been...
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