The ABC’s Fact Check unit has returned, with the help of RMIT University, to ensure the facts that public figures cite are not ‘alternative’ but plain old truth. From March, the RMIT ABC Fact Check will do what it did ...
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Professor works to build student influence in uni governance
In Australian universities, student engagement in university decision-making is patchy. That’s how the University of Technology Sydney’s professor Sally Varnham describes it, and that’s what she hopes to change after her report to the federal Department of Education is published. ...
More »YourTutor announces UK expansion
Online private tutoring company YourTutor has expanded to the UK, beginning with a trial at the University of East London (UEL). The company has doubled in size over the past two years and seeks to continue profitable expansion in the ...
More »Diversity a cornerstone of Schmidt’s vision for ANU
The Australian National University aims to “reflect society in all its diversity” and to engage more closely with business under a new strategic plan announced by vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt. Outlining the plan to 1000 ANU staff on Thursday 9 ...
More »Employment rates dip for engineering graduates
The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...
More »US spy money funds Aussie research into human reasoning
The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...
More »Profile: USC’s botanist with a passion for ‘suicidal’ palm trees
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Alison Shapcott from the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has just returned from Madagascar, where she has ...
More »Exploring vaccination objectors’ ethical obligations to the community
Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection. He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical ...
More »Morley & Ma relationship inspires $26 million donation to UON
While Newcastle electrical engineer Ken Morley and his family were touring Hangzhou, China, in 1980, they met 15-year-old Jack Ma. Morely became his friend and mentor. He challenged many of Ma’s views and helped him develop a global perspective in ...
More »Focus on systemic issues, not apprenticeships: Noonan
The Mitchell Institute’s Peter Noonan has warned that VET needs to stop being conflated with apprenticeships as it could cause overinvestment in declining industries. Noonan said that falling apprenticeship numbers aren’t the main problem in VET, as this is partly ...
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