Education & teaching
Male teachers headed for extinction in Australia
Macquarie University researchers have calculated the proportion of male teachers from 1965 to 2016 in Australia, and report that with their current declining rate, male teachers will no longer exist in Australian primary schools by the year 2067. The study is the first ever to track the trajectory of male teachers in any country, with the researchers calling for a review of Australian workforc...
Vale Jill Roe
The university community, alumni and friends came together on Monday 20 February to celebrate the life of Emeritus Professor Jill Roe, one of the university’s founding tutors (and later professor), who died earlier this year. Jillian Roe AO was born in 1940 in Tumby Bay, SA, a small farming town where her father was a farmer and her mother a nurse. After finishing school at Adelaide Girls...
MGSM ranks first in Australia, for the third year in a row
The Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) has once again taken out the title of Australia’s best business school as well as placing in the world’s top 50 business schools. Based on the results of the Financial Times’ global MBA ranking which is considered a benchmark of business school excellence MGSM placed 49th globally and first in Australia, for the third consecutive year. Th...
Refugee mentoring program wins Humanitarian Award
Macquarie University’s LEAP – Macquarie Mentoring (Refugee Mentoring) Program has been awarded the 2016 NSW Humanitarian Award in Education. The LEAP Macquarie Mentoring (Refugee Mentoring) program is a unique mentoring program for high school students from refugee backgrounds, and provides a friendly atmosphere for students from refugee backgrounds to explore and navigate future educat...
Research Spotlight: Vijaya Nagarajan
Associate Professor Vijaya Nagarajan (BEcon/LLB '83) has been a researcher at Macquarie Law School for the past 16 years, and is exploring ways of creating a regulatory framework that will economically empower women in Pacific countries. “Women are half the world’s population,” she says. “Yet, right now in many Pacific countries, they hold less than 10 per cent of senior jobs and pa...
Young guns
Chance encounters have helped inspire our graduates and students to help make the world a better place. For Susanna Matters (BA/DipEd 2013), who studied teaching, her ‘moment’ was realising it wasn’t her teaching, but rather monthly periods that made her female students at a Kenyan village miss school. “It’s not a glamorous issue, but it’s also one that isn’t goin...