
UNE supports Parramatta’s bid to become legal hub
UNE has joined top law firms, universities and business groups in the City of Parramatta Council’s bold bid to transform the Parramatta CBD into one of Australia’s key legal hubs. City of Parramatta Lord Mayor Cr Bob Dwyer, NSW Member for Parramatta Dr Geoff Lee MP...
Shaping the post-grad student experience
Comment by Professor Shelley Kinash, Executive Principal, Student Experience. UNE recognises that overall, postgraduate students have different wants, needs and experiences than do undergraduate students. Within these general categories of postgraduate and...
New Executive Principals confirmed
After a competitive selection process which included a number of applicants from outside the Higher Education sector, UNE has confirmed appointments for three new Executive Principal positions to guide the University's Future Fit strategy. Congratulations to the...
When parenting and studying inform each other
By Julia Day, Senior Law Lecturer In some ways Jessica Jones is your typical UNE Law student. She is female and a mum and is hoping to pivot into a new career after completing her law degree. Before having kids, Jess was a primary teacher and then a secretary for a...
Supporting UNE Student Retention through Metaphoric Free Flight
Comment by Professor Shelley Kinash, Executive Principal, Student Experience (Interim) Retention is a major focus for universities. After students have commenced their degrees (whether UG or PG, on-campus or online or mixed modes), how do we support them to...
Reporting on the 2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium
Last week the second annual Learning and Teaching Symposium was delivered, fully online. The UNE Learning and Teaching Symposium is an institution-wide celebration of the outstanding learning and teaching and scholarship of teaching and learning that takes...
Taking a degree from Goulburn, with help from the Country Universities Centre
Job opportunities in the world of agriculture are enormous and exciting, as recent UNE graduate Savannah Roberge-Boutsikakis has discovered. Savannah chose to undertake an online Bachelor of Agriculture because she has always been passionate about the agricultural...
Distinguish yourself
This August UNE will embark on a priority project to connect research and researchers. We are asking researchers, including adjuncts, who have not yet done so to sign up to ORCID, or Open Research and Contributor ID. An ORCID ID is a unique digital identifier that...
About UNE’s new Student Experience lead
UNE's new Executive Principal, Student Experience (Interim), Professor Shelley Kinash, arrives with a deep background in her field. She told Pulse: My PhD is in Education Technology from the University of Calgary and I completed it in 2004. My research topic was...