“I did it, but…” Teachers hear this phrase a lot when asking students to hand in their homework, but perhaps it’ll be said a little less thanks to a new Deakin University project. Engineers designed a smart school bag that ...
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Senator Michaelia Cash has vowed to lift the profile of Australia’s VET sector. Speaking at the 28th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference last week, the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business said she wants to make ...
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In the heat of mid-January, when every university and college in Australia was “in market” for semester one recruitment, a CSIRO scientist invented a random university slogan generator (see image), a VERY simple word randomiser. Activate, Realise, Be, Disrupt, Push, ...
More »The digital and the human: how universities are remodelling for next generation students
A dazzling spectacle confronts visitors stepping into the atrium at Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) brand new Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct at its Kelvin Grove campus: a five-metre diameter digital sphere, suspended from the ceiling and displaying fully digital content ...
More »Student calls out ‘racism’ at Cambridge in PhD withdrawal letter
The University of Cambridge is making headlines this week after a PhD student publicly announced she was withdrawing from her studies due to the racism she says she witnessed. In a piece written for open publishing platform Medium, Indiana Seresin ...
More »UTS, two other young Australian unis make top 20 list
The applause for University of Technology Sydney might not yet have faded but it can once again pat itself on the back after another set of rankings gave it the top Australian spot on a list of young universities, albeit under ...
More »Contract cheating draft legislation too heavy-handed: unis, students
A student helping out a struggling classmate might be worried they’re incriminating themselves should draft legislation to prohibit academic cheating services move ahead unchanged. That’s one of the potential problems with the scope of the bill's details spelled out by ...
More »Podium position for RMIT in unofficial blockchain ranking
An Australian university has nabbed a spot on a list of 10 institutions dedicated to the study of digital currencies. Compiled by digital assets provider Kaiko, the “not an official” ranking put RMIT University third, above competitors like Princeton and ...
More »Hidden treasures: feeding the world with future smart food
In a world that talks of 'obesity epidemics' and 'global connectedness', hundreds of millions struggle each day to get enough food to survive. For more than 800 million people on our planet, much of their daily life and what energy ...
More »Google, US university face potential class action lawsuit
It was meant to improve healthcare and save lives but a project between Google and The University of Chicago has put the two organisations in hot water. In May 2017, The University of Chicago Medicine Center announced that it was ...
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