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A commonly used cancer drug may do more harm than good, researchers at Flinders University have found. The team in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) discovered that the drug, which has been used for decades to treat cancer-related ...

Students have a heavy enough load without adding the wasteful burden of social networking. University students believe themselves to be Sisyphus. Condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill, a second-year arts/law undergraduate despairs – after all ...

Mergers and rebuilding in the Christchurch school area show the system was broken before the quakes hit. The Christchurch earthquakes and all that has gone with them have placed demands on a city that are alongside the devastation that two ...

The former South Australian Supreme Court chief justice, John Doyle QC, will return to his alma mater, the University of Adelaide as an adjunct professor in the Law School. Doyle graduated from the university in 1966 and was the 1967 ...

The University of Notre Dame has appointed Professor Douglas Hodgson as dean of the school of law at the university’s Fremantle campus. Hodgson did a Bachelor of Laws at York University before completing a Master of Laws at the University ...

Notre Dame has also appointed Professor Shelda Debowski as the new deputy vice-chancellor of the university and head of the Fremantle campus. Debowski has an extensive background in West Australian higher education. Her most recent role has been at the ...

The principal of James Nash State High School in Gympie has been made an honorary senior fellow of the University of the Sunshine Coast. Darren Edwards was recognised at USC’s graduation ceremony this month for his dedication to providing educational ...

Professor Moira Clay has been announced as the new president of the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS). Clay is director of academic and research services at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Western Australia. She has been president-elect ...

Scientists at Melbourne’s RMIT University have designed a new chemical that targets and treats melanoma cells. In a biomedical engineering advance that could lead to more treatment options for skin cancer sufferers, researchers have designed a peptide that acts like ...

Former state and federal MP Rob Hulls has been appointed an adjunct professor and the inaugural director of the Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT. He studied law at RMIT before being admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor ...