The University of Melbourne is Australia’s sole top 50 entrant in the latest ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), landing at 33. Other Australian universities to crack the top 100 this year include the University of Queensland (51), UNSW ...
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UQ researchers discover a ‘dragon-like’ creature that once commanded Queensland’s outback skies
A team of University of Queensland researchers have analysed a fossil of a dragon-like reptile that soared above the inland sea that covered much of outback Queensland around 100 million years ago. Known as a pterosaur, it was Australia’s largest ...
More »Forty winks won’t make up for lost sleep
A quick cat nap during the day won't fix the effects of a sleepless night, according to researchers. Academics at Michigan State University’s Sleep and Learning Lab looked at the effectiveness of shorter length naps on the cognitive impairment brought ...
More »Six years of the LANTITE: Monash expert interrogates its assumptions and suitability as a teaching gatekeeper
Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...
More »Will we see compulsory vaccination in Australian higher education? Opinion
Is compulsory vaccination coming to Australian post-secondary education – colleges, universities and the large (4.2 million students) vocational education and training sector? Yes, in some circumstances, given that it’s already here. Sadly, it looks like we in Australia (and certainly ...
More »Turnbull, Rudd and the ‘problem’ with the China-Australia relationship
It’s unequivocally our most important yet problematic relationship we share with another country. And on Wednesday, former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull recommended the coalition government dampen the domestic political rhetoric against China that has been building ...
More »UNSW expert says Sydney COVID outbreak could be better controlled if people were told one specific detail
One of the country’s leading epidemiologists says crucial information is missing when NSW’s daily Covid-19 case numbers are announced that could help paint a clearer picture of how the virus is spreading. Professor Mary-Louise McLaws from the University of NSW said Sydney’s ...
More »Thoughts on the passing of the theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg: opinion
The First Three Minutes and A Brief History of Time The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics Professor Steven Weinberg (3 May 1933 to 23 July 2021) has passed away. Just several hours before this writer learned of Weinberg’s ...
More »QUT study links sedative use in children with post traumatic stress
A drug commonly used to sedate children receiving treatment in intensive care has been identified as a “possible predictor” of post traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), a study led by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has found. The study, which ...
More »Careers of female academics stall with mid-level holding pattern – opinion
Even at universities, the career progression of female academics may lag that of their male counterparts, with new research from Edith Cowan University revealing that male and female academics experience significantly different career paths. A big reason behind this is ...
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