The cities of Stirling and Melville have become prime locales for new childcare centres this year, despite residents’ and councillors’ concerns about their impact on amenity and traffic congestion.
Andrew Deeks, a former engineering professor and head of school at the University of Western Australia, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Murdoch University.
PS Structures has secured work on the redevelopment of Carine Senior High School, while Devlyn Construction will build a new classroom block at TAFE’s Roebourne campus.
Plans for an Edith Cowan University CBD campus are set to proceed despite a red flag from Infrastructure Australia, which warned benefits could be overestimated and may not align with the Perth City Deal’s objectives.
The state government and Shell Australia have penned a deal to supply and install boiler training equipment at South Metropolitan TAFE’s Munster facility.
Perth-based skincare company Clean & Pure and education provider Engineering Institute of Technology took out national prizes at the Australian Export Awards last night.
TRCB Architects and EIW Architects have been appointed to design $23 million and $15 million projects at John Curtin College of the Arts and Mount Lawley Senior High School respectively.
More than a third of Australia’s international student cohort is currently living or studying in their country of origin, with more than half of Chinese students stuck abroad.
Improving pay for Australia’s early childhood education and childcare workers will be among the sectors’ highest priorities over the next three years, according to an independent, 10-year strategy for building a sustainable workforce for the industry.
The contract to build a $6 million health and hospitality centre at North Regional TAFE’s Kununurra campus has been awarded to local business Kimberley Green Constructions.
FIRM Construction will complete a series of upgrades to senior schools in Ocean Reef and Mandurah, while ADCO Constructions has secured work in South Hedland.
ECU’s business and economics discipline has climbed in new global university rankings, cracking Times Higher Education’s top 250 list of providers for the first time.
More than 10,000 childcare centres across Australia and New Zealand will allow parents to use ‘buy now, pay later’ software to cover fees through a deal struck between Zip Co and Xplor Technologies.
