Eligible international students will be able to re-enter Australia from December 1 this year after enduring nearly two years of closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of the sector’s peak bodies warn that returning to pre-pandemic enrolment ...
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Federation University in Victoria will cut the number of its schools by half and offer redundancies to all permanent staff, according to reports from The Age. Staff were told about the restructuring on Monday and will now have until January ...
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Anthony Forster of Essex University in the UK joins the podcast as our first international VC. He describes the values that drive how his university seeks to differentiate and what made it UK University of the Year in 2018. He outlines the quite ...
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A new study has found evidence that an Iron deficiency in the brain could be an important factor in developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the University of Adelaide were studying the mutations in a small number of genes associated with ...
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Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...
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At first sight this could be a slogan for crunchier fish and chips from the deep freeze, something which food companies could definitely improve on. In fact, it’s a highly sophisticated technique for editing the genes of plants, animals and ...
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Two-in-five Australians think they’ll likely get Covid, according to a new survey, as the number of people reporting “severe” psychological stress has dramatically jumped. Australian National University researchers surveyed almost 3500 adults and found 40 per cent believe they are likely or ...
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After nearly two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is perhaps no surprise that something related to it has been chosen as the Australian National Dictionary Centre’s word of the year. But while ‘pandemic’, ‘iso’ or ‘uncertainty’ could ...
More »Australian universities continue to punch above their weight: ARTU global rankings
Australian universities continue to punch well above their weight, as a new ranking puts Australia third for the number of universities it has in the global top 200. The Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) 2021 rates universities by their ...
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World Philosophy Day 2021 falls on 18 November. Commemorated since 2005 world-wide, it is quite close to the birthdays of theologian and Christian philosopher (Saint) Augustine (13 November 354–28 August 430) and philosopher Baruch Spinoza (24 November 1632–21 February 1677). ...
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