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Perhaps, just as questions about age, gender preferences and politics have been made redundant (even illegal), job applicants should no longer be required to name where they studied and recruitment processes should have institutions’ names redacted from all applicants’ listed ...

“Improving indoor thermal and environmental quality is as important as improving the teaching material in the classroom.” That’s the call from associate lecturer Dr Shamila Haddad, lead author on a study that found many Australian school kids are learning in ...

An urban planner who wants to promote more cyclists to hit the roads has launched a survey asking whether clothes like Lycra make them seem “less human”. Dr Mark Limb was inspired by a 2019 study showing drivers think of ...

BOWMAN BACK AGAIN Professor Scott Bowman will take up the reins as VC at Charles Darwin University. It’s not Bowman’s first time at the helm of an intuition – he was VC of Central Queensland University for almost a decade ...

Thousands of high schoolers in the US have received a letter of acceptance to attend an institution they never applied to. The University of Kentucky’s (UK) College of Health Science typically admits around 35 to 40 students a year but ...

A leading epidemiologist says the federal government’s vaccine rollout was already “pretty much in disarray” before blood-clot concerns with the AstraZeneca jab derailed the program. Professor Nancy Baxter, the Head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the ...

It is well established that like other entities, universities are in the business of identifying and developing competitive advantages in the marketplace for students and knowledge, based on capability, location, tradition and technology. Global rankings, although criticised, do provide some ...

Young women are the most reluctant group in Australia to get the COVID-19 jab, a new study has found. The Australian National University study also suggests that if young women have been turned off by the government’s handling of sexual harassment allegations, ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has agreed to or noted all 55 recommendations in a report on sexual harassment in the workplace, one year on from its release. At a press conference, Morrison called the Respect@Work Report a “game changer”. It ...

A new review of paracetamol has revealed it has only been proven to relive pain in four conditions. The University of Sydney systematic review, published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia, held that for most conditions, evidence regarding ...