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An Australian astronomer who detects asteroids heading our way has lost his project funding.  World-renowned astronomer Rob McNaught, who has discovered more than 400 comets and asteroids, may have to desert his watch over Southern Hemisphere skies. McNaught, the only ...

A Sydney student who competed in a Mandarin competition in China believes the best way to know a country is to learn its language. Competing in the finals of an international language contest, University of NSW law student Andrew Blackie ...

Journalism education has lost one of its staunch activists with the passing of journalist and scholar Professor Anne Dunn. The former ABC journalist and pro-dean (academic) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney died ...

A competition has been launched by The Big Issue magazine challenging university students to come up with the next big idea for the publication brand. The competition, called The Big Idea, will seek ideas that provide job opportunities for homeless, ...

Margy Osmond brings a strong background in the private sector and government to her senior NSW post. The inaugural chief executive of the Australian National Retailers Association and former head of the NSW and Sydney chambers of commerce, Margy Osmond, ...

The number of students in hoc to the federal government – and the debt – has never been higher. Australian university student HECS-HELP debt is the highest in history, currently more than $23 billion. The average debt per student is ...

Limiting the time you spend seated could add years to your life, new research claims Scientists from Louisiana University in the US have discovered that adults who are seated for a maximum of three hours a day could add an ...

The University of Adelaide is launching a program to help its students turn their innovative business ideas into reality. The ThincLab Online Commercialisation Accelerator is being developed by the university’s Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC), and will be run ...

The pro vice-chancellor for global reach and attrition prevention waits in the vice-chancellor’s office with the dean of job readiness, awaiting the VC’s return from a session with a Gestaltian therapist. PVC: Look; I think I got away with it ...

University of Queensland academics say that a cheeky grin can improve your level of happiness and those of the people around you – and improve people’s health and wellbeing.   Professor Ottmar Lipp, a senior research fellow in psychology who studies ...