Queensland researchers are asking Australians to brainstorm ideas for a project that aims to ensure people with dementia get home safely after they go missing. Dr Margaret MacAndrew from QUT and the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration said her study ...
More »Victoria, UniMelb to build national infectious disease centre
The Victorian government will invest $155 million to establish an Australian Institute of Infectious Disease in Melbourne. Premier Daniel Andrews made the funding announcement, which will form part of this month’s state budget, on Friday morning. The total cost of ...
More »Domino effect warning as estimated 100,000 students to miss out on study abroad
It’s possible 100,000 Australian students will be unable to travel overseas to study due to travel restrictions in 2020 and 2021. That’s the estimate consultancy firm Studymove put forward on the back of its survey of university students, commissioned by ...
More »Aussie law student takes the government to court over climate change
An Aussie university student has had her first day in court waging a David and Goliath battle against the government over climate change. Melbourne student Katta O’Donnell was inspired to take legal action against the government during a La Trobe university lecture about the ...
More »Strictly speaking | Get-up
This informal word has multiple senses – not all overlapping – depending on which dictionary you consult. They do agree on get-up being an unusual costume or outfit which draws attention to the wearer. “Get-up nights” are a suburban extravaganza ...
More »Education research should be held to medicine’s standards: academics
“How can it be ethical to teach a program in schools that has not been rigorously evaluated?” This is one of the questions two academics posed as they argued that education research should be held to a higher standard, closer ...
More »Reputation ranking: world’s academics weigh up Aussie unis
The world’s universities have been weighed up by academics and they’ve again put six Australian institutions in the top 100. Times Higher Education (THE) has released the 2020 edition of its World Reputation Rankings, which canvasses the opinions of the ...
More »Snuggling in the late Cretaceous: fossils reveal early mammal social behaviour
Newly discovered fossils of a small, rodent-like animal show that snuggling was part of mammal behaviour from as far back as the late Cretaceous epoch. The find suggests that Filikomys primaevus engaged in multi-generational, group-nesting and burrowing behaviour, and possibly ...
More »On again? SA uni merger part of election promise
South Australia’s opposition leader has promised to drive a merger between the states' universities if the Labor party wins the next state election. In a Facebook post, Peter Malinauskas said South Australia was the only mainland state without a university ...
More »Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Academic found in Iran’s Evin prison
An Australian-British academic who is serving a prison sentence in Iran has been located after her whereabouts became unknown. Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert was recently moved from Iran’s notorious Qarchak prison to an unknown location. Her worried friends and colleagues are ...
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