Jeremiah Thoronka, a Durham University student from Sierra Leone, has won the inaugural Chegg.org Global Student Prize, worth $100,000 US. Thoronka beat out over 3,500 nominees and applications from 94 countries around the world to claim the prize, which sits ...
More »Return of international students is given the green light in NSW
Fully vaccinated international students entering NSW from overseas will not have to quarantine when they return to the state next month. The first chartered plane of returning international students will touch down in Sydney International Airport on December 6. The ...
More »Students’ eyes on Musk prize
Three Australian university student teams have been awarded a total of $US750,000 ($A1,00,000) as some of the winners of the XPRIZE carbon removal student competition, sponsored by Tesla founder and tech billionaire Elon Musk. The four-year global competition recognised student ...
More »Aussies lose faith in governments and social media to protect private data: ANU research
Australians have become less trusting of how governments and companies use their private data following two years of using check-in apps during the Covid-19 pandemic. New analysis from the Australian National University shows people’s trust in major institutions to maintain data privacy ...
More »Multiple US universities on alert after bomb threats force evacuations
Multiple universities across the US faced bomb threats in the past week, including four Ivy league schools. Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities all alerted students to the threat on Sunday (November 7 AEDT) and evacuated several campuses. Police deemed the ...
More »Our universities face change. Perhaps it is time for some international realism? Opinion
Academic freedom remains a matter of concern for academics throughout Australia and beyond, however this needs to be put in context when considered in the international arena. Yojana Sharma (2021) recently remarked upon a survey of some 200 Singaporean academics ...
More »The uni library that discovered a 200-year-old vampyre and Charles Sturt’s travel reading
The University of Queensland has uncovered a near 200-year-old first edition of the first known vampire novel in one of its libraries, which could well have been the travel reading of Charles Sturt as he voyaged to Australia. Vampire stories ...
More »Arts vs Science? The Job-Ready Graduates package and beyond
The higher education sector in Australia has been through a rapid cycle of change and disruption over the past two years, starting with a shift in the way university places are funded. In this piece we reflect on the impact ...
More »Study finds 28m more years of life lost during 2020 pandemic
Over 28 million more years of life were lost in 31 countries last year than expected, based on a study shedding light on the impact of the pandemic. International researchers looked at 37 upper middle and high income countries or ...
More »Cleo Smith found in Carnarvon house, criminologists say rescue came against all odds, psychologists say she must be ‘watched carefully’
The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...
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