The ABC’s Fact Check unit has returned, with the help of RMIT University, to ensure the facts that public figures cite are not ‘alternative’ but plain old truth. From March, the RMIT ABC Fact Check will do what it did ...
More »Professor works to build student influence in uni governance
In Australian universities, student engagement in university decision-making is patchy. That’s how the University of Technology Sydney’s professor Sally Varnham describes it, and that’s what she hopes to change after her report to the federal Department of Education is published. ...
More »YourTutor announces UK expansion
Online private tutoring company YourTutor has expanded to the UK, beginning with a trial at the University of East London (UEL). The company has doubled in size over the past two years and seeks to continue profitable expansion in the ...
More »Diversity a cornerstone of Schmidt’s vision for ANU
The Australian National University aims to “reflect society in all its diversity” and to engage more closely with business under a new strategic plan announced by vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt. Outlining the plan to 1000 ANU staff on Thursday 9 ...
More »Employment rates dip for engineering graduates
The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...
More »US spy money funds Aussie research into human reasoning
The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...
More »Exploring vaccination objectors’ ethical obligations to the community
Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection. He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical ...
More »Focus on systemic issues, not apprenticeships: Noonan
The Mitchell Institute’s Peter Noonan has warned that VET needs to stop being conflated with apprenticeships as it could cause overinvestment in declining industries. Noonan said that falling apprenticeship numbers aren’t the main problem in VET, as this is partly ...
More »Researchers speak out against Trump’s ‘insulting’ travel ban
Despite the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries by US President Donald Trump being overturned by a federal court decision, and the decision being upheld against an appeal by the White House, there remains the real possibility that Trump will ...
More »UQ grad develops program to help kids stay in school
At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...
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