Category: Study

  • The positives of neuroticism

    The positives of neuroticism

    I’m doing a ‘People and Organisations’ class this semester and in its first few weeks we have been looking closely at personality traits. This has involved doing a couple of questionnaires to determine our own personality type, including the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the five factor model, also known as the Big Five or

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  • Research interview

    Research interview

    One of the things I’m most appreciating from my classes this year, is the new practical skills I am learning. In my Theories of Work and Organisations class I am grouped with three other students for an essay project on the lives and experiences of workers. It requires us to each carry out an interview

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  • Soaring inflation hits students and universities

    Soaring inflation hits students and universities

    Although inflation is hitting everyone at the moment, some students are getting a double whammy due to increasing fees as a result of the government’s Job-Ready Graduates (JRG) reforms. Australian tuition fees are still a fraction of the US college fees I believe they pay in the vicinity of around US $200,000 for a degree

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