From childhood disease to ageing well: UTS success in NSW Health scholarships
Six UTS PhD students have been awarded scholarships in the inaugural round of the NSW Health PhD Scholarships Program. The UTS scholarship recipients are among 26 successful applicants from across NSW...
View ArticleUTS again on the rise
After last year entering the top 200 universities globally for the first time, UTS has continued its rise in the QS World University Rankings, leaping 17 places in the latest assessment.In the 2018 QS...
View ArticleNew UTS Business School dean to forward entrepreneurship and business links...
Professor Chris Earley, currently the Dean of the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania, has been appointed the next Dean of the UTS Business School at the University...
View ArticleHonours recognise vision and world-leading education and research
UTS Deputy Chancellor Brian Wilson and UTS Distinguished Professor of Midwifery Caroline Homer have each been made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday...
View ArticleOpinion: Learning gets real when students spend time in an internship
By Attila Brungs, Vice-Chancellor, UTS Op-ed first published in The Australian, 14 June 2017There is something important about going out and being exposed to a real workplace or community organisation...
View ArticleHorror and comedy mix in short film success story
An ambitious short film that was the major project for a UTS master's degree has repaid a tricky "mission impossible" production period with great reviews and a series of international festival...
View ArticleHonda Australia drives learning and innovation initiative with UTS
A leading manufacturer of quality motor vehicles, Honda Australia has announced an exciting industry and educational engagement with the University of Technology Sydney's Faculty of Transdisciplinary...
View ArticleUTS graduate anointed the new "movie human" for JJJ
Recent UTS School of Communication graduate Amelia Navascues has been chosen as the newest movie reviewer for Triple J, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth radio station.The 22-year-old...
View ArticleOpinion: Innovation and the role of universities
By Attila Brungs, Vice-Chancellor, UTSA few weeks ago, Deloitte Australia kicked off their ImagineSydney series with the launch of their Create report. The series is designed to explore the...
View ArticlePassion for inspiring teachers brings its own reward
Switching teachers – and students – on to being curious learners has been a lifetime passion for teacher educator and former head teacher Dr Jane Hunter.Now that thirst has earned her a prestigious...
View ArticleUTS leads continued Australian push in young universities ranking
The University of Technology Sydney has maintained its national leadership in the second of the two international rankings of "young" universities announced this year.Following on from UTS's leap last...
View ArticleTech-focused legal major to equip graduates for law of the future
Australia's first specialist undergraduate legal major in legal technologies and future law practices is set to be launched early next year by the UTS Faculty of Law.Available to all students enrolled...
View Article'Personal assistant for your Post-It notes' a winner
Collaborative teams use thousands of Post-It notes, but hours are lost transferring those notes into digital tools that teams use every day.That’s the problem brothers and co-founders Geoff and Alex...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence holds great potential for students and teachers – if...
Artificial intelligence (AI) enables Siri to recognise your question, Google to correct your spelling, and tools such as Kinect to track you as you move around the room.Data big and small have come to...
View ArticleKeep it civil – how to move beyond the fake news fixation
Publishers and journalists have nothing to gain from complaining about platforms such as Facebook “stealing” their audiences.Instead, they need to recognise why audiences have gone elsewhere and find...
View ArticleReport an important step towards better safeguarding students
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) welcomes the release today of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s national report as an important piece of research that will inform its continuing...
View ArticleShanghai students help create gateway to Asia for start-ups
Twenty Chinese high school students are a step closer to becoming young entrepreneurs after spending two weeks undertaking a customised curriculum at the UTS Hatchery.The group from Shanghai Commercial...
View ArticleA lab of one's own
In 1929, Virginia Woolf released her most famous work of feminist literary criticism, A Room of One’s Own. The book argued for the space for women’s writing in a male-dominated tradition.Now 2017,...
View ArticleInside the global village
Tevvi Bullock was only 14 when she travelled overseas for the first time. The 17-day school exchange took her to Cape Town in South Africa."I remember, after the trip, feeling like I had this thing...
View ArticleWorking wonders
Gabrielle Harradine was just five years old when she first experienced the life-saving power of medicine. But she wasn’t the one who was sick.“When I was in kindergarten, my mother got bacterial...
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