People’s discomfort about the use of data in education will fade as older generations die, data company executives have said. Rick Jackson, chief marketing officer of data visualisation company Qlik, argued that “millennials are all about the data”. He said ...
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Talking Eds, episode 13: Toddler body image issues, dingo meat ideas hurt USQ ecologist, yet more uni rankings
In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review unpack body image issues in the preschool playground, look into the USQ ecologist who was forced to withdraw from a conservation conference ...
More »145 Good Samaritans crowdfund UniMelb student’s fees
A crowdfunding campaign that raised almost $20,000 has saved a Melbourne university student from expulsion and possible deportation. Donations from 145 people have shocked economics student Sanduni Sulochana who is breathing much more easily after making a payment this week ...
More »Profile: journalism grad lands plum beat, forgives Chilli Peppers
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Tom Snowdon recently graduated from the University of the Sunshine Coast's journalism course and completed a grad program at ...
More »ARC pumps $31.3 million into gravitational wave research
Following two sightings of Albert Einstein’s fabled gravitational waves this year, the Australian Research Council has allocated $31.3 million for new work in this field. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGRav) will be hosted by Swinburne University of Technology. ...
More »Zero happiness: Indigenous teens down on life in survey
A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as zero out of 10. Only 1 per cent ...
More »RUOK? Day an opportunity to listen to those around you
RUOK? Or, as it is sounded out, Are You Okay? Thursday 8 September is RUOK? Day, a designated moment in our lives to turn our attention to friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, fellow students and even strangers, and take an interest in ...
More »Nature Research simplifies science on new website
Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public. The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...
More »UTS catching up to Go8 in QS World University Rankings
The University of Technology Sydney is snapping at the heels of the sandstone institutions in the global rankings race, becoming the first local non-Go8 institution to climb into the top 200 of QS’s World University Rankings 2016–17. UTS, placed at 193, ...
More »QUT to divest from indirect fossil fuel investments
While Queensland University of Technology has been saying for a while it has no direct investments in fossil fuels, university money has been flowing into such shares via QIC, the university's investment manager. Now it appears this no longer be the case. ...
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