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USYD calls out bullshit

The 2016 Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year is getting a work out. 'Post-truth' is the subject of a new USYD research project. Simply named the Post-Truth Initiative, it pools together researchers from fields as diverse as physics, philosophy, data ...

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Professor toughens up trainee teachers

Caroline Mansfield is teaching teachers resilience on a global scale. The Murdoch University Associate Professor's program, the sunnily-named Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRITE), has 5,000 users and counting. Resilience - the capacity to quickly bounce back after setbacks - sounds ...

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UTS to fight fake news with new research centre

UTS hired a suitably zeitgeisty ‘thinkfluencer’ to launch its Centre for Media Transition: Jeff Jarvis, a podcast host with a parody Twitter account. Though he is many other things, too: not least, the director of the Tow-Knight Centre for Entrepreneurial ...

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ATAR not decisive in UNSW law entry

In the summer of 2016, University of New South Wales Law quietly unveiled a new entry process for undergraduates: prospective students are assessed for admission to the faculty based on their ATAR and their score in a Law Admission Test (LAT). The ...

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VU gives tradies a leg up

Tradies will no longer have to down tools to enter university. Victoria University has partnered with Builders Academy Australia (BAA), the training division of Simonds Group, to offer BAA graduates pathways to degrees. From this year, such graduates will receive ...

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