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Most English words have a history which can be traced back through centuries and even millennia. So those which the dictionary notes as “origin unknown” are a challenge –especially colloquial words like munted, which seems to pop up in New Zealand out ...

The Australian Government (AG) finalised Agreements with all States and Territories (S&T) for initial delivery of 180,000 fee-free TAFE and vocational education places from January 2023.  These are jointly funded as first part of a commitment to 480,000 places over ...

Amazing new AI bots are now able to convincingly write cogent academic essays and assist in penning other student assignment tasks. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has caused consternation in a higher education environment already struggling to sustain its own ...

A free AI tool has sparked fears over a dramatic spike in student plagiarism, but a technology expert says universities should learn to embrace new technologies. The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 stunned academics with its ability to generate ...

Thousands of staff at the University of Queensland of Technology had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack last month. Around 2,500 current and former faculty members, including 67 students, had personal data stolen after hackers targeted a single ...

The ‘new normal’ has been explained away – suggesting that the changes that have occurred and reframed our working lives in particular are now normal. The term ‘new reality’ is probably more fitting as we stretch and yawn our way ...

Plans to merge the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia into a 'super university' in 2026 has both raised new prospects for research and drawn concerns around job security. The University of South Australia and the University ...

Former Victoria University vice-chancellor professor Peter Dawkins has been appointed to lead federal Labor’s new jobs and skills agency.  Skills and training minister Brendan O’Connor named professor Dawkins as interim director of Jobs and Skills Australia, after legislation passed to ...

Staff from Griffith University have stopped work for a day to protest stalled wage negotiations and job insecurity at the Queensland campus. In late November, university management sent out enterprise agreement offers to staff after back-and-forth talks with the union ...

HCLTech, a leading global technology company and member of Oracle’s Partner Network, has delivered a cloud-first transformation and application modernisation project for RMIT University’s Student Administration Management System (SAMS).   Founded in 1887, RMIT is a multi-sector university of technology, ...