Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...
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Strictly Speaking | Crispr foods
At first sight this could be a slogan for crunchier fish and chips from the deep freeze, something which food companies could definitely improve on. In fact, it’s a highly sophisticated technique for editing the genes of plants, animals and ...
More »Number of Aussies who think they’ll get Covid rising, ANU study shows
Two-in-five Australians think they’ll likely get Covid, according to a new survey, as the number of people reporting “severe” psychological stress has dramatically jumped. Australian National University researchers surveyed almost 3500 adults and found 40 per cent believe they are likely or ...
More »Fed up with the ‘Strollout’? Australian National Dictionary Centre’s word of the year
After nearly two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is perhaps no surprise that something related to it has been chosen as the Australian National Dictionary Centre’s word of the year. But while ‘pandemic’, ‘iso’ or ‘uncertainty’ could ...
More »Australian universities continue to punch above their weight: ARTU global rankings
Australian universities continue to punch well above their weight, as a new ranking puts Australia third for the number of universities it has in the global top 200. The Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) 2021 rates universities by their ...
More »Socratic ‘I Know Nothing’ v Socrates as expert in the Crito and Phaedo: Commemorating World Philosophy Day 2021 – opinion
World Philosophy Day 2021 falls on 18 November. Commemorated since 2005 world-wide, it is quite close to the birthdays of theologian and Christian philosopher (Saint) Augustine (13 November 354–28 August 430) and philosopher Baruch Spinoza (24 November 1632–21 February 1677). ...
More »Twelve-hour digital ‘sit in’ at Newcastle University to oppose job cuts, secure ongoing work
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) held a 12-hour digital sit-in on Monday morning at the University of Newcastle. The purpose of the digital protest was to shine a light on “the scale of insecure work at universities” and what ...
More »How does a university of enterprise operate and engage its stakeholders? opinion
A university of enterprise actively seeks to give voice to, and engage, all stakeholders. Its leadership team visibly and actively seeks to incorporate the views of its customers in plans for the future – and are not afraid of the ...
More »Inaugural $100k global student prize winner announced
Jeremiah Thoronka, a Durham University student from Sierra Leone, has won the inaugural Chegg.org Global Student Prize, worth $100,000 US. Thoronka beat out over 3,500 nominees and applications from 94 countries around the world to claim the prize, which sits ...
More »Return of international students is given the green light in NSW
Fully vaccinated international students entering NSW from overseas will not have to quarantine when they return to the state next month. The first chartered plane of returning international students will touch down in Sydney International Airport on December 6. The ...
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