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Grok Magazine is an Australian free student magazine.The magazine is written and produced by Curtin University students and published by the Curtin Student Guild. The magazine was started in about 1970 and named after a word indicating deep understanding that was introduced in Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land.
Tuition freeze is a government policy restricting the ability of administrators of post-secondary educational facilities (i.e. colleges and universities) to increase tuition fees for students. Although governments have various reasons for implementing such a policy, the main reason cited is improving accessibility for working- and middle-class ...
Tuition payments, usually known as tuition in American English [1] and as tuition fees in Commonwealth English, [citation needed] are fees charged by education institutions for instruction or other services. Besides public spending (by governments and other public bodies), private spending via tuition payments are the largest revenue sources ...
Curtin University was founded in 1966 as the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [18] The four people who drove its establishment were Lesley Phillips, who was Superintendent of Technical Education from 1943 to 1948; George Hayman, [a] who held the same position from 1948 [19] to 1962; [20] T. L. Robertson, Director of Education; and Haydn Williams, Director of Technical Education.
The first meeting of Guild Council was held on Friday the 11th of April in 1913 with Sir John Winthrop Hackett serving as the first Guild President. [31] Due to tuition being free at UWA at the time, there were limited resources for social and sporting activities, this resulted in the Guild taking these activities on and charging a membership ...
Curtin University is the modern descendent of the Perth Technical School, established in 1900, which later became the Western Australia Institute of Technology in 1966. [10] The institution received university status in 1986 to form the Curtin University of Technology, named after paramount World War II Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin. [31]
A students' union or student union, [note 1] is a student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools.In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organizational activities, representation, and academic support of the membership.
Differential tuition or tiered tuition [1] is an amount charged on top of base tuition to support additional services and programming for students at a particular academic institution. [2] Researchers found 60 percent of public research universities were charging students different prices based primarily on their major and their year in college ...