A nutritious diet could be more effective than drugs in preventing stroke, diabetes and heart disease, a new University of Sydney study has found. The research, published in Cell Metabolism, tested different combinations of three anti-ageing drugs with various mixtures of ...
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Federation University in Victoria will cut the number of its schools by half and offer redundancies to all permanent staff, according to reports from The Age. Staff were told about the restructuring on Monday and will now have until January ...
More »HEDx Podcast – Do you want to work at a university that is curious, brave and bold? Episode 41
Anthony Forster of Essex University in the UK joins the podcast as our first international VC. He describes the values that drive how his university seeks to differentiate and what made it UK University of the Year in 2018. He outlines the quite ...
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A new study has found evidence that an Iron deficiency in the brain could be an important factor in developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the University of Adelaide were studying the mutations in a small number of genes associated with ...
More »Monash again accused of wage theft by staff
Monash university is again at the centre of a wage theft scandal as it admits to underpaying professional staff this year. Earlier this year Monash made a voluntary disclosure to the Fair Work Ombudsman that between January 1 2014 and ...
More »Number of Aussies who think they’ll get Covid rising, ANU study shows
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 »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 »Inaugural $100k global student prize winner announced
Jeremiah Thoronka, a Durham University student from Sierra Leone, has won the inaugural Chegg.org Global Student Prize, worth $100,000 US. Thoronka beat out over 3,500 nominees and applications from 94 countries around the world to claim the prize, which sits ...
More »Return of international students is given the green light in NSW
Fully vaccinated international students entering NSW from overseas will not have to quarantine when they return to the state next month. The first chartered plane of returning international students will touch down in Sydney International Airport on December 6. The ...
More »Could universities play a bigger role in staving off the ‘great resignation’ in education? Podcast
According to Australian emotional intelligence expert Dr Ben Palmer, Chief Executive of Genos International, universities could play an important role in securing the the sector's future by offering units in emotional intelligence in their initial teacher education courses. In a ...
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