Health insurer HBF and miner BHP Billiton are turning away from a singular focus on annual performance reviews in favour of more regular and personal engagement with staff.
Following a board reshuffle this morning, Perth-based online education provider iCollege has a new chairman and chief executive, with the size of the board reduced to three.
Western Australia has experienced the nation’s highest rate of births, but the second biggest percentage fall in overseas migrants, taking the state’s total population to about 2,587,000.
Curtin University will close its Sydney campus in 2017 while education provider Navitas, which manages the campus and delivers the programs, will consolidate its services at La Trobe Sydney.
Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy co-director Steven Tingay has been seconded to the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics to serve as the founding director of its new radio astronomy observ
A Western Australian not-for-profit group has taken a collaborative approach to ensure a shortage of funding doesn’t jeopardise its work with indigenous children and remote communities.
Reigning 40under40 winner Angus Turner has welcomed an investment of almost $4 million into the Lions Eye Institute and pledged to use the funds to implement a new mobile eye healthcare service for use in the state’s most remote regions.
Big energy companies are fairly well prepared for the next wave of LNG projects coming into production, according to industry executive Keith Spence, but they need to stay focused on training to ensure a good supply of skilled workers is on tap.
The government today announced EduWest, a consortium of Macquarie Capital, Badge Constructions, Perkins Builders and Spotless Facility Services, as its preferred tenderer for its eight-school public private partnership (PPP).
The state government will provide a free, confidential drug and alcohol counselling service for fly-in, fly-out (fifo) workers and others who work away from home.
The opening of Fiona Stanley Hospital has enabled two suburban hospitals within five kilometres of one another to completely change their services, dropping gynaecological and maternity offerings to focus separately on aged care and rehabilitation.
SPECIAL REPORT: A small but growing Perth-based health insurance fund believes the market dominance of HBF is an unnatural position that can’t last in an increasingly competitive market.
SPECIAL REPORT: Hospital and aged care industry professionals have given WA’s health care system a mixed review, with some aspects applauded and others in need of improvement.
Perth exploration company BMG Resources (formerly Brazilian Metals Group) has announced a non-binding heads of agreement for the possible acquisition of Brisbane-based online fitness training accreditation business FitLink.
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Students at more than a third of Western Australia’s regulated registered training organisations (RTOs) have been exposed to range of serious breaches, including being taught by unqualified trainers and passing courses despite submitting incomplete or incorrect written assessments.
The first sod has been turned at the Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute in Nedlands, with Cockram Construction set to begin work under a $30.3 million contract.
The government has announced the introduction of a simplified international student visa framework, which involves reducing the number of visa sub-classes from eight to two, to boost Australia's international education sector.
Perth-based online health directory and booking service HealthEngine has reached a new milestone, with the company making its one millionth online booking through its application.
Construction of the $360 million St John of God Midland Public Hospital has been completed on time and on budget, with Brookfield Multiplex handing the keys to the state government and the hospital operator today.
With apprenticeship completion rates below 30 per cent in some industries, the business sector is continuing to push for reforms to vocational education and training.
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Australia’s largest ever philanthropic donation is bearing fruit, with the first five recipients of the Forrest Foundation research scholarships announced at the University of Western Australia today.
