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A lot has been written (often negatively) about the effects of online technology on communication, with emoticons, emojis and abbreviations like LOL taking the place of the non-verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures and laughter that are available to ...

RUDD SLINGS TO SINGAPORE Professor Chris Rudd has gone west – from China to Singapore. The former provost of the University of Nottingham’s Ningbo campus in the coastal province of Zhejiang, near Shanghai, has made the island city-state his new ...

Gender and culture both affect the scores teachers get on student experience surveys – but the bias is more notable in certain faculties. That’s according to a review of almost 525,000 student experience surveys across five faculties between 2010 and ...

Employees looking to get a better night’s sleep and feel more productive the next day at work should turn to after-work activities like reading, going to the gym or volunteering, a new study suggests. The research, published in the Journal ...

New Zealand scientists say they have found a USB memory stick containing holiday photos inside a frozen slab of seal poo. The scat, valuable for studying the health of leopard seals, had been stored in a freezer for a year ...

Numerous papers published on transplants involve organs unethically harvested from executed prisoners, a new review argues. Australian and international researchers investigated whether papers reporting research on transplants in China from 2000 to April 2017 comply with such international professional standards as excluding research ...

University students are being reminded of the importance of consent ahead of Orientation Week celebrations. Professor Margaret Gardner, chair of Universities Australia (UA), said while O Week is a time for new friendships and fun experiences before getting into study ...

A US director of graduate studies has obliged with Duke University’s request for her to step down from her position after two emails she penned to students leaked online. Screenshots of the emails – through which Megan Neely, Assistant Professor ...

India is closely monitoring the detention of several Indian students in the US, urging urged authorities there to not deport them against their will. Indian news reports say as many as 129 Indians were among those detained on January 30 ...

The peak body representing Australia’s independent higher education providers is getting a new coat of paint. After 18 years of being the Council of Private Higher Education, its board has approved the new identity – Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA). ...