On the surface, it’s hard to imagine what a 19th century helmet made from dried pufferfish skin and plant fibre could offer a postgraduate business student. But, in what might appear to be an unusual move, the university has incorporated ...
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Multiple universities across the US faced bomb threats in the past week, including four Ivy league schools. Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities all alerted students to the threat on Sunday (November 7 AEDT) and evacuated several campuses. Police deemed the ...
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VC David Lloyd of the University of South Australia shares insights from running the first staff jam across his whole university aimed at bringing staff engagement into its strategy; and repeating it again 4 years later. He describes how one unforeseen ...
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The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) has been independently verified as the UK’s first carbon neutral university, but debate persists over whether student travel emissions should remain optional to report. Global certification organisation BSI verified the school’s ...
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In an exciting development for the teaching profession, La Trobe University’s unique Nexus program has recently produced its first group of classroom-ready secondary school teachers. In their first year, students work part-time in schools and receive direct mentoring opportunities and professional ...
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Over 28 million more years of life were lost in 31 countries last year than expected, based on a study shedding light on the impact of the pandemic. International researchers looked at 37 upper middle and high income countries or ...
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The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...
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Adding extra dairy into the diets of residents can drastically reduce fractures and falls in aged care, according to a new study. A two year trial — carried out by the University of Melbourne and Austin Health — tested the ...
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New research has found that vaping cannabis is on the rise among teens in Canada and the US, and experts believe a similar rise could be on the cards for kids in Australia. Research by the University of Queensland found ...
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