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 »Students’ eyes on Musk prize
Three Australian university student teams have been awarded a total of $US750,000 ($A1,00,000) as some of the winners of the XPRIZE carbon removal student competition, sponsored by Tesla founder and tech billionaire Elon Musk. The four-year global competition recognised student ...
More »Aussies lose faith in governments and social media to protect private data: ANU research
Australians have become less trusting of how governments and companies use their private data following two years of using check-in apps during the Covid-19 pandemic. New analysis from the Australian National University shows people’s trust in major institutions to maintain data privacy ...
More »The arts/science schism appears to be narrowing in the 2022 world university rankings for arts and humanities
Three Australian universities placed in the top 100 of The World University Ranking 2022 by subject: arts and humanities, but the bigger story is how long-established science and engineering behemoths of the sector are also registering strongly in the arts ...
More »Multiple US universities on alert after bomb threats force evacuations
Multiple universities across the US faced bomb threats in the past week, including four Ivy league schools. Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities all alerted students to the threat on Sunday (November 7 AEDT) and evacuated several campuses. Police deemed the ...
More »London School of Economics claims first carbon neutral status in the UK, but debate remains
The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) has been independently verified as the UK’s first carbon neutral university, but debate persists over whether student travel emissions should remain optional to report. Global certification organisation BSI verified the school’s ...
More »Study finds 28m more years of life lost during 2020 pandemic
Over 28 million more years of life were lost in 31 countries last year than expected, based on a study shedding light on the impact of the pandemic. International researchers looked at 37 upper middle and high income countries or ...
More »Cleo Smith found in Carnarvon house, criminologists say rescue came against all odds, psychologists say she must be ‘watched carefully’
The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...
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