While print revenues shrivel as traditional media struggle to understand this thing called the internet, online magazine VICE has embraced it, and is omnipresent throughout millennials’ Facebook feeds. Now the largely 20-something class of 2016 communications cohort at the University ...
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Jan Thomas is the vice-chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland, based at its Toowoomba campus, and the chair of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), comprising Central Queensland University, Federation Universities Australia, Southern Cross University, University of New England, University ...
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2016 Budget sees major uni reform delayed: how the day after unfolded
We welcome your feedback and comments, via email, Twitter or the comments box below. 4:32pm Professor Eeva Leinonen, Murdoch University's vice-chancellor, said her university will continue to help disadvantaged students despite the 20 per cent cut to HEPP. Despite #budget2016 ...
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Research links grammar learning to pattern recognition
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Falling Chinese corporate profits are a bad omen for most, but not for those involved in research and development, a senior Australian Government economist argued. Last year, annual Chinese corporate profits fell 1.4 per cent, the first annual decline since ...
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