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Teachers number one: 5,500 prospective students
Prospective domestic Australian university students value teacher quality the most. That's the upshot of the QS Enrolment Solutions 2018 Domestic Student…
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Policy & Reform
Opinion: what a local and an international scandal suggest about education inequality
On Monday, ABC chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a…
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Industry & Research
Skin a new tool for measuring stress, resilience: Uni Newcastle
Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture, and the…
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Fact-checking goes meta
Is having 100% renewable energy for a country feasible? With less than 12 years until climate change disaster, having an answer to…
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Should world leaders’ grades be public property?
The definition of intelligence is complicated. Cambridge Dictionary defines it as 'the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or…
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News
Union says ‘Uber-style’ peer to peer tutoring ‘not in students’ or staff’s best interests’
The NTEU has alleged that Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) online study company Studiosity's new peer-to-peer tutoring service for university students is "clearly not…
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Policy & Reform
Peak science body endorses student-research supervisor relationship ban
In August last year, in the wake of the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) watershed report into sexual assault and harassment…
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News
VC Craven defends Pell after guilty verdict
Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Greg Craven, a "dear friend" of Cardinal George Pell, remains loyal to him despite Pell's conviction for…
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Faculty Focus
Award-winning teacher’s equation for success
Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University…
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International Education
Yale students sue uni for frat culture
On behalf of fellow students in their position, Anna McNeil (20), Eliana Singer (19), and Ry Walker (20) have sued Yale…
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Podcasts
Gov: unis aren’t walking their disability talk
Despite the fact that people with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, over a fifth of employers that claim they're…
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Industry & Research
What’s with universities and dogs?
Scroll through university social media for long enough and you will come across numerous dog posts. Whether it's a pooch…
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Industry & Research
It’s near-definitive: students who study creative arts get better grades
Would you steer a Year 6, 7 or 8 student away from 'soft' subjects like art and music to harder…
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Faculty Focus
Monash exhibits the humblest of objects
Could February be the month of lunchboxes? Last week, the ABC published an investigation of their contents in wealthier and…
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Policy & Reform
Should burkas be banned from university classrooms?
Why do you wear all black? Why are you even still alive? It isn't fair to us. While Australian universities…
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Top Stories
You would believe what academics say
Is there a funnier university-related Twitter account than 'Shit Academics Say'? Sarcasm even seeps into its bio disclaimer: Retweets are…
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Policy & Reform
Private school-educated scholars denounce old boys’ and girls’ clubs
Most future wealth – at least in Western nations – will be inherited. But billionaires still put their children in the…
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News
Details of Western civilisation degree published
The controversial Western Civilisation degree, currently homed at the University of Wollongong, has released its syllabus. It covers ancient Greece, Rome,…
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University reverses rape chat decision after public shaming
The University of Warwick has reversed its decision to allow students back on campus after they issued rape threats. After…
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News
‘Other people have much more to be proud of’: Australia’s 94-year-old PhD graduate
Dr David Bottomley may look old, but he barely sounds it. Having recently completed his thesis, the 94-year-old now holds…
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Industry & Research
A very brief history of academic dress
With graduation season approaching, academics and students will soon don caps and sweeping gowns. The contrast between the gravity of…
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Industry & Research
Australian universities are embracing Huawei. The government isn’t
In his LinkedIn profile photo, Weijing Wang resembles a typical businessman. He wears a fitted navy suit, a starched white…
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News
Singapore academics criticised university rankings. Then their quotes disappeared.
Asian rankings darlings the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University are suffering internal tumult after 10 professors…
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After resignations, concern about Melbourne University Publishing spreads
For a university publishing house, it was shocking. On Wednesday, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) chief executive Louise Adler resigned after the…
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Features
‘If you breathe, you have a responsibility to read’: Professor’s rallying cry against ignorance
People may as well have sung 'Unhappy Anniversary' to US President Trump last Sunday night. January 20 marked two years since he…
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