Two additional Australian universities have banned the admission of Indian students in response to concerns over fraudulent visa applications. Victoria’s Federation University and Western Sydney University (WSU) have halted recruitment from students from six Indian states, including Punjab, Haryana and ...
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International students in Australia are going hungry: study
International students studying in Australia are going hungry at an "alarming rate" according to a new report. Monash University researchers interviewed 60 overseas students across Melbourne last year and found nearly half were struggling to afford basic groceries due to ...
More »Major changes in the world’s population of learners: opinion
The global world of higher education has been depicted for generations as a continuously expanding landscape, of campus-based places, where young people visit, reside, and interact. The settings have been for young people to pursue study, experience rites of passage, ...
More »HEDx Podcast: The emerging population crisis and its impact on global universities – Episode 72
Data Scientist Stephen Shaw founded birthgap.org following his work surfacing the growing global gaps in birth rates from that required to sustain populations. He has found that all countries will see a dramatic fall in future populations due to births falling below a replacement rate of 2.1. ...
More »Key WA unis say no to mergers
The West Australian government faces strong resistance to mergers from most of the state’s public universities, signalling a major battle ahead if a review now under way recommends joining one or more institutions. Murdoch University vice-chancellor Andrew Deeks said his ...
More »International students reluctant to enroll without secure housing
One in two international students are reluctant to enrol in Australian Universities due to a lack of secure accommodation, according to the results of a new survey. Amid a rental crisis which will see Australia fall short of 106,300 homes ...
More »Meet the QUT professor who figured out Covid-19 was airborne
When the pandemic first struck in 2020, QUT Professor Lidia Morawska knew air transmission was a major factor in the spread of Covid-19, but the World Health Organisation refused to hear her warnings. "What the WHO was doing was spreading misinformation," ...
More »What if there were no university rankings? Opinion
In 2012 at a San Francisco meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, a group of editors and publishers signed a declaration to change the way Journal Impact Factors were being used to inappropriately depict the comparative quality of ...
More »CWUR 2023 rankings: UniMelb, UsYD named Australia’s best
Melbourne University has again been named Australia’s best university in the latest round of higher education rankings. The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) named Melbourne University the 57th top global university of 2023, rising six places from last year. ...
More »Uni of Melbourne researchers pave the way to augmented reality
A University of Melbourne research team has made the world’s first curved augmented reality display screens, a breakthrough which is expected to widen the use of AR technology in recreation and the workplace. The researchers used 3D printing techniques to ...
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