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It’s not often people are given money to actively do nothing but that’s what a German university is offering. The Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK) announced this week that it would give €1,600 “idleness grants” to three people committed ...

It happened again. On 31st July, the University of NSW tweeted an article which quoted Human Rights Watch's Australia director and adjunct law lecturer, Elaine Pearson, expressing her concerns over the erosion of human rights in Hong Kong. The tweet ...

Australia’s only top 50 institution in ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has climbed the list in its 2020 edition. Last year, the University of Melbourne slid three spots to land 41st but has this year gained that ground ...

I have been involved in development and implementation of e-learning systems and online courses for some years now and while there have been instances of building and delivering courses for the 'virtual campuses’, the lion's share of the work has ...

The Nationals have formally pushed for changes to the government’s proposed university fee overhaul, saying there is a “glaring and potentially detrimental design flaw” in the plan. The Nationals party room on Monday agreed to press for changes to the ...

When Ariana Grande sang that she had 99 problems, she likely didn’t have the state of international education in Australia in mind, but if she did, she’d be right. Here are three of our biggest problems: We only recruit significant ...

Eye-tracking technology may help to make the preferences of people who have mild cognitive impairment (MCI) known. In a new study, researchers from Flinders University recruited older people at outpatient memory clinics, including caregivers, to investigate the ways older people ...

Covid-19 has spawned a new vocabulary, from lockdown to social distancing to super-spreader, that has quickly become familiar. We’ve also had to learn technical terms like pandemic and coronavirus, and drug names like Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir. Another medical word that ...

Scientists have solved an enduring mystery about Stonehenge, determining the origin of many of the megaliths that make up the famed monument in England, thanks to a core sample kept in the United States for decades. Geochemical testing indicates that ...

In a shake-up of its course profile, Charles Sturt University will slash 20 courses with no student enrolments and cut a further 28 with low numbers. The university announced it would make changes to a further 61 offerings, and “revitalise” ...