To keep up with the push to see Australians in the workforce for longer, older jobseekers will brush up on their soft skills through an Australian pilot. Deakin University has invited older adults looking to get back into the workforce to ...
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Romantic love won't be celebrated this year at the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city. To much chagrin, the university – one of the nation's best – has issued a 'ban' on Valentine's Day. In its place, Vice ...
More »Australian research counters commonly-held orthodontics belief
Contrary to popular thought, orthodontic treatment will not prevent future tooth decay, researchers have argued. The University of Adelaide team assessed the long-term dental health of 448 people and discovered that those who had orthodontic treatment did not have better ...
More »University criticised over student blackface video
A sorority has expelled one of its members following the upload of a video showing a woman in blackface using what sounds like a racist slur. The video shows a student covering her face and hands in black paint and ...
More »China’s emerging economies uni ranking success makes it the model to emulate: THE
China has again dominated a ranking of universities from emerging economies. Unsurprisingly, seven of the top ten positions on Times Higher Education’s (THE) Emerging Economies University Ranking 2019 were held by Chinese institutions. Tsinghua University took out the top spot ...
More »No more Australians needed: ANU poll
The issue of population growth made headlines a number of times in 2018 – Prime Minister Scott Morrison flagged cutting migration and earlier in the year Four Corners explored our readiness for a ‘Big Australia’ – so what does the ...
More »Nobel laureate stripped of honours after ‘reprehensible’ statements
In 2007 James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, said that black people are genetically inferior. In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, he voiced that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" as "all our social policies are based ...
More »Indian scientists outraged by wacky remarks at annual congress
You would be forgiven for thinking you misheard certain comments at the latest Indian Science Congress. Among them: Einstein's theory of relativity was "a big blunder"; gods created dinosaurs; and gravitational waves should be renamed 'Narendra Modi waves'. Opened by ...
More »UOW’s Ramsay Centre deal sparks renewed debate
After shopping around for more than a year, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation has found an unlikely partner: the University of Wollongong. Perhaps not the Centre's first choice – the deal was struck after negotiations with at least ANU, ...
More »First fact-checking subject released, but is it too little, too late?
RMIT is heralding its introduction of Australia's first 'fact-checking' university subject. The course, which will be mandatory for first year BA (Journalism) students, will include the teaching of skills like detecting Photoshopped images, using Google Earth to verify the location ...
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