It was O Week at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), 20–24 February 2017, and the Toowoomba-based campus put on a splendid Market Day to welcome the new cohort of students, and welcome back returning pros, to the institution, according ...
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James Cook University, which has campuses in Townsville, Cairns, Singapore and Brisbane, has entered into a 3-year collaborative partnership with the North Queensland Cowboys, a rugby league team based in Townsville. Robyn McGuiggan is the deputy vice-chancellor for global strategy ...
More »USC Orientation: scenes from a Sippy Downs O Week
The sun was shining, sleeves were optional and the sausages were sizzling at Sippy Downs this week as around 4,500 new students converged on the University of the Sunshine Coast for a toasty orientation to higher education. “Orientation has been designed ...
More »Curtin utilising Malaysian campus to internationalise student experience
A cohort of nearly 100 architecture and design students and academics from Curtin recently visited the Perth university's Malaysian campus, at Sarawak in Borneo, as part of a wider plan to internationalise courses through international study tours, internships, collaborations and ...
More »Gimme shelter: Oxford activists demonstrate for city’s homeless
Activists have claimed a University of Oxford building and turned it into a homeless shelter, just before it was to be redeveloped into student accommodation. At the feet of the “city of dreaming spires”, as poet Matthew Arnold once dubbed ...
More »Permanent evolution required in this age of changing futures
Today’s students must be prepared for a continuously changing future in which adaptability and creativity will be highly prized. May I invite you to consider for a brief moment how your life’s journey has unfolded and taken you to the ...
More »UTAS philosopher exploring pros and cons of implantable brain technology
Dr Frederic Gilbert is a philosopher and ethicist in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He has been studying the positive and negative effects of implantable brain technologies, which are used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s disease ...
More »UQ researcher connects social interaction characteristics of people with autism
Dr Daniel Skorich is a psychology researcher at the University of Queensland. He has been researching autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and has published a paper that shows the relationship between clusters of social interaction characteristics that were previously thought to ...
More »Profile: USC’s botanist with a passion for ‘suicidal’ palm trees
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Alison Shapcott from the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has just returned from Madagascar, where she has ...
More »Exploring vaccination objectors’ ethical obligations to the community
Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection. He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical ...
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