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The University of Sydney’s fundraising campaign has reached its goal of $600 million, two years ahead of schedule. With the original goal now realised, INSPIRED’s new target is $750 million by the end of 2017. Tim Dolan, USYD’s vice-principal of ...

Hard counter-terrorism responses to the Paris bombing risk neglecting de-radicalisation programs, which schools play a key role in, an expert has said. Hard responses include military action, increased securitisation, toughened legislative measures and clamping down with law enforcement. Nationals MP ...

The University of New South Wales is set to lead the largest clinical trial into ketamine as a treatment for depression. Doctors and veterinarians use ketamine as an anesthetic. The drug is also used illicitly as a hallucinogen. A $2.1 million grant ...

A new website may change the way universities source their casual academic staff. Federal Department of Education statistics show that in 2013, there were 69,331 casual academic staff – both acting casual and full-time equivalent – in Australian universities. Of this ...

Half of public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, making a lot of data useless. A study by Australian National University of 100 leading journals in ecology and evolution found more than 50 per cent of their studies' datasets are incomplete, ...