At a time when vaccine hesitancy and misinformation has gathered traction in some circles around the world, it seems unbelievable that a peer-reviewed journal would be complicit in promulgating similar mistruths. But that is exactly what has recently happened. A ...
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Transformative journals: changing the scholarly publishing landscape – opinion
Traditionally, journal articles have stayed behind paywalls, making access to those who do not subscribe or pay challenging. Until now, publishers have collected hefty subscription fees from libraries to allow their readers access to the articles. There is a push ...
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CampusReview · HEDx podcast - University Culture in the Real World - Episode 31 This episode has Margaret Sheil joining the HEDx team to outline where QUT is up to in refreshing its blueprint strategy. As the university with the ...
More »Experts recommend NSW extend lockdown to lessen effects of pandemic
The life-threatening and economic hazards of relaxing Covid-19 restrictions before zero community spread is reached validates the decision by NSW to extend its lockdown, researchers suggest. A team of economists, public health experts and modellers from the Australian National University found the ...
More »The belt and ranking road – opinion
Improving international ranking status has, during the last two decades, become the justification for numerous disruptive ‘strategic’ business and marketing behaviours across our tertiary sector. To add to those 17,300 jobs ‘shed’ due to COVID-19 (Universities Australia, Feb 3rd, 2021) ...
More »‘Excited to welcome him aboard’: USC appoints renowned mental health expert as its new Deputy VC
The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has appointed Professor Ross Young as its new deputy vice-chancellor (research and innovation). Prior to this appointment, Young was the executive dean at the Faculty of Health at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), ...
More »TEQSA approves Australia’s first new university in nearly a decade
Australian higher education students will be afforded more choice after one new university and three university colleges were approved by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Authority (TEQSA). The NSW-based Avondale University College will be Australia’s first new university in ...
More »Curtin uni researchers unveil new trial of heart drug to treat Alzheimer’s
In a world first, researchers will trial the use of a cardiovascular medication to treat Alzheimer's disease. The study is based on the discovery that probucol, a drug used to manage high cholesterol, may be able to decrease the inflammation ...
More »Why the student voice matters in today’s digital world – opinion
COVID-19 has changed not only how higher education is delivered but the experiential nature of study. It’s time providers fundamentally rethink the role of the student experience to remain viable in the face of intensifying competition. In today’s digital world, ...
More »QS report shows international students still struggling with online, flexible delivery
The latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) report provides key insights into how international students perceive Australia as a study destination, whether they have managed to return or are planning to return in the near future, and their preferred ways of learning. ...
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