Although the uncapping of Australian university enrolments has opened up university education to thousands more people, the NTEU says it has also resulted in overcrowded lectures and staff cuts. NTEU national president Jeannie Rea said that while removing caps was ...
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Liquid metal marbles advance nanoscience
A team at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has made a breakthrough that will advance research in soft electronics and industrial sensing technologies. They have developed droplets of liquid metal coated in nanoparticles that they call “liquid metal marbles”. Researchers ...
More »Rocket science tops ATAR list
The University of Sydney's Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) (Space) course had the highest Australia Tertiary Admission Rank cut-off of any degrees offered to students in the main round offers this year. The University Admissions Centre made offers to more than ...
More »Sexual harassment ‘ignored’ in rural areas
Research presented to a symposium at the University of Canberra has revealed that rural centres tend to ignore sexual harassment or blame the victims. The study reveals that a large majority of employers and employees in rural and remote Australia ...
More »UK staff numbers drop
Employment at UK higher education institutions has fallen for the second consecutive year, new figures show. Data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show 3540 fewer staff were employed at publicly funded higher education institutions in 2011-12 compared with ...
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