Low and modest income earners are in the gris of a housing crisis as the Covid-19 pandemic causes rents to surge, according to a new report. Researchers from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and University of NSW (UNSW) found that ...
More »Morrison says universities should shift focus from ‘publish or perish’ towards commercialising research
The Morrison government is pushing for universities to shift from “publish or perish” incentives to focus on commercialising their research, industry needs and “national priorities”. Announcing $242.7 million for a yet-to-be-selected small group of “trailblazer” universities, the government wants to ...
More »Government’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill leaves room for refusing to hire gay teachers
The Prime Minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, which will allow room for religious schools to refuse to hire gay teachers, is “necessary” to protect people with faith from the “bots, bigots and bullies” of the “cancel culture”. Scott Morrison personally introduced ...
More »RMIT settles in ‘payment dispute’, set to pay casual staff back $10 million in underpayments
Another horror week for the university sector ends with RMIT admitting underpaying thousands of casual staff members and agreeing to pay back approximately $10 million. This week has seen Monash university fight further accusations of wage theft and Federation University ...
More »Diet more powerful than drugs for anti-ageing
A nutritious diet could be more effective than drugs in preventing stroke, diabetes and heart disease, a new University of Sydney study has found. The research, published in Cell Metabolism, tested different combinations of three anti-ageing drugs with various mixtures of ...
More »Federation Uni to downsize, offer redundancies to all permanent staff
Federation University in Victoria will cut the number of its schools by half and offer redundancies to all permanent staff, according to reports from The Age. Staff were told about the restructuring on Monday and will now have until January ...
More »Iron deficiency linked to Alzheimer’s
A new study has found evidence that an Iron deficiency in the brain could be an important factor in developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the University of Adelaide were studying the mutations in a small number of genes associated with ...
More »Monash again accused of wage theft by staff
Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...
More »Number of Aussies who think they’ll get Covid rising, ANU study shows
Two-in-five Australians think they’ll likely get Covid, according to a new survey, as the number of people reporting “severe” psychological stress has dramatically jumped. Australian National University researchers surveyed almost 3500 adults and found 40 per cent believe they are likely or ...
More »Australian universities continue to punch above their weight: ARTU global rankings
Australian universities continue to punch well above their weight, as a new ranking puts Australia third for the number of universities it has in the global top 200. The Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) 2021 rates universities by their ...
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