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Hacking and the risks of information theft are being treated as a clear and present danger on Australian campuses as more and more information is kept online. By Annabel McGilvray. When the University of Sydney’s homepage was replaced with a ...

Industrial action at Macquarie University is under way as pay negotiations are delayed. By Natasha Egan. Students at Macquarie University face a quiet first week on campus as academic staff plan to stay away from classes after pay negotiations stalled. ...

Delays, flood cuts and grey areas have frayed unis’ nerves over the government’s structural adjustment fund. In this article • No word on SAF applications • Sector nervous about flood cuts • EIF element adds to uncertainty • Applications extremely ...

Christian Bumbarra Thompson has started his fine arts PhD at Oxford University as one of only two Indigenous Australians to study at the prestigious institution. Australian contemporary artist Christian Bumbarra Thompson (left) has made history as one of just two ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry have proclaimed 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. During the year, celebrations and special events will be held around the globe to ...

It is that time of year, the eve of semester start, when lecturers, fulltime and casual, feel the slow burn stress gather momentum. With some rhetorical infusions Joseph Gora re-imagines a typical scenario Trudy Crappay, an experienced casual academic at ...

Bureaucrats will never have ALTC’s ability to energise a community of activists willing to commit their own time to the collective improvement of teaching and learning writes Peter Goodyear Flood damage is insidious. Its effects can be far-reaching. The latest ...

Dr Andrew Peele, head of La Trobe University’s Physics X-Ray Science group, has been appointed head of science at the Australian Synchrotron. The secondment was announced jointly this week by the acting director of the synchrotron, Dr George Borg, and ...

Dr Lindsay Heywood has been appointed an audit director with AQUA. Heywood has worked in various roles in four Australian universities, including as professor quality systems and director quality development at RMIT University. He has experience in ISO certification in ...

Professor Roland De Marco has taken on the job of University of the Sunshine Coast’s first pro vice-chancellor for eesearch. The professor of chemistry was previously associate deputy vice-chancellor (research strategy and development) at Curtin University in Perth, where he ...