A new study that suggests adults should continue their current red meat consumption has been met with condemnation, including from one of its authors. A team of international researchers, led by Bradley Johnston, an associate professor of community health at Dalhousie University in ...
More »Regional universities top key ranking: Good Universities Guide 2020
The Good Universities Guide 2020 has named Charles Sturt University the top-ranked Australian university in graduate employment, with 86 per cent of graduates securing full-time work within four months of completing their courses. The guide also found that Charles Sturt ...
More »Auckland Uni VC declines to remove white supremacist material from campus, citing free speech
The vice-chancellor of Auckland University in New Zealand has declined to take down white supremacist material from campus, citing free speech. As first reported in the university’s student magazine Craccum, Professor Stuart McCutcheon has described the material as “unfortunate”, but ...
More »Why focusing on digital experience can give education providers an edge over the competition
Providing customers with a personalised experience is no longer just an option for the marketing department or a ‘nice to have’ that enhances the core product. Instead, it’s become a source of competitive advantage and a critical success factor. For ...
More »‘We stan education!’: AI influencer’s marketing ploy capitalises on student debt anxiety
The anxiety-soaked issue of US student loans has been in the spotlight recently. Earlier this year, in a stunning act of altruism, US billionaire Robert Smith eliminated the debt of a 2019 graduating class. In March, Democratic runner Bernie Sanders ...
More »Australian researcher named world’s best
Very few people can say they’re ‘the best in the world’ at anything, but for Charles Sturt University Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharynne McLeod, that’s exactly the case. A year after being named Australia’s leading researcher in her ...
More »Who’s in demand? Australia’s MBA programs ranked
The University of Melbourne offers Australia’s best MBA program, if a ladder by an international education thinktank is to go by. QS Quacquarelli Symonds named Melbourne Business School 26th in the world, seeing it extend its lead from last year ...
More »New CREATE Centre wants all learning infused with creativity and the arts
The centrality of creativity and the arts to learning and the future of the workforce is the focus of a new centre launched this week at the University of Sydney by award-wining playwright Wesley Enoch, and attended by roughly 100 ...
More »We must fight again: Ridd vows to continue legal battle after JCU lodges appeal
James Cook University has decided to appeal a Federal Circuit Court decision that would see the university pay $1.2m in compensation to sacked professor Peter Ridd. As a result, Ridd took to his GoFundMe page to raise money to cover ...
More »UTS digital academy gets rankings nod
A joint venture between UTS and animation and digital production company Animal Logic has nabbed the top stop on two global tables. The UTS Animal Logic Academy (UTS ALA) was ranked first in Mobile – Production Excellence and Immersive Media ...
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