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A new report from the Mitchell Institute finds that Australian university profits took a nosedive in 2020, dropping $1.6 billion to just $669 million. Nearly half of Australian unis reported a loss and most struggled to break even. Only three ...

Deakin university will axe up to 200 staff as the university goes through another round of redundancies. Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Martin announced a plan to cut between 180-220 jobs as the pandemic continues to bite into the sector's bottom ...

Two legal academics from Flinders University say Canada’s ongoing push to create an independent body to review wrongful convictions highlights significant shortcomings in Australia’s legal system. Both lawyers and Adjunct Associate Professors from the university’s college of business, government and ...

Sandra Harding, as Australia's current longest serving VC of a single Australian university at JCU in Townsville, joins the HEDx team. She reflects on how the sector's leaders and staff are feeling and of the culture change that is needed for ...

New research from the Australian National University has found that individuals who base their thinking on “first instincts” are more likely to believe and share misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic.  COVID-19 misinformation has appeared and been shared since the beginning ...

New research from Flinders University has found that during 2020 women from affluent backgrounds had higher levels of mental health complaints, compared to women of other social classes. The survey looked at 799 Australian women aged 45-64 years at two ...

Melbourne-based artist and researcher Dr Erica Tandori has enabled people with low-vision or blindness to touch, feel and experience the world of infection, immunity and nutrition in a new exhibition.  As part of Science Week 2021, Monash University’s Rossjohn lab ...

The central theme of new Netflix drama The Chair is timely and gets a lot right about racial politics in modern American academia. Smart, incisive, nicely written and acted, it’s a genuinely rewarding binge watch. As senior academic women ourselves, ...

A German University is on high alert after a suspected poisoning left students and staff turning blue, with one victim temporarily on life support. Seven people at Darmstadt Technical University were displaying symptoms of poisoning, six of whom needed hospital ...

Autism is a neurological condition affecting an estimated 150,000 Australians, with the disorder diagnosed in roughly one in 160 children. But in what could potentially be a major breakthrough, diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may one day involve a simple ...