A statue at the University of Hong Kong commemorating the massacre at Tiananmen Square must be taken down, the university says. The Pillar of Shame stands eight metres tall and is an imposing monument to the demonstrators who lost their ...
More »University of Sydney modelling claims Australia could hit 40,000 cases a day without restrictions
Experts from the University of Sydney claim Covid-19 cases could surge to 40,000 a day across Australia if state governments throw all restrictions out the window when 80 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated. Although NSW appears to be past ...
More »Victoria submits plan to bring back international students by year’s end
The Victorian government has become the latest to submit formal plans to get international students back into Australian institutions. Overseas students will start coming to Victoria by the end of this year under the 'Victorian Government’s Student Arrivals Plan', which ...
More »Brittany Higgins to take ANU role
Brittany Higgins has taken up a new role to further her work advocating for victims of sexual assault and harassment and for gender equality. The former political staffer has been appointed as the first visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s ...
More »From disaster to distinction: one Indigenous woman’s education journey
Carmel Debel can remember the time her mother tried to enrol her and her brothers in the local primary school. It was back in 1990, when she was seven, and when the administration staff and principal saw her mum standing ...
More »Sitting at a desk all day? Get up every half hour, or else
Researchers say that if you work sitting down all day you should get up and move every half hour, or run the risk of serious ill health. A new study from an international consortium of scientists, including academics from the ...
More »The so-called alternate delivery modes for international students are here to stay
The involuntary shift to online learning has also highlighted and facilitated a range of other alternate mode delivery mechanisms for international students. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic international education (onshore in Australia) was in face to face mode with strict ...
More »Monash admits to massive wage theft
Monash has become the latest university to own up to wage theft, announcing that they owe casual academics millions in underpayments. After an internal investigation Monash VC Margaret Gardner has admitted that between January 1 2014 and 30 June 2020 ...
More »Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton inaugurated chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast
One time Democratic presidential candidate and former US first Lady Hillary Clinton will finally be inaugurated as the chancellor of Queen's University Belfast (QUB), as reported by the BBC. Clinton, a former senator for New York and Obama-era Secretary of ...
More »How Australian schools and unis can overcome the challenges of cloud migration
The benefits offered by the adoption of cloud computing are now well understood, however many of Australia’s education institutions are still struggling to put a clear migration strategy in place. For some, it’s a case of not knowing where to ...
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