CampusReview · HEDx: There's no going back - Episode 17 This HEDx podcast sees Karl and Martin joined by Chris Eigeland, the chief revenue officer of edtech start-up GO1. The episode explores how new entrants are moving at warp speed to disrupt ...
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A recent analysis has found that the academic database Scopus is hosting more than 300 journals with dubious scientific and editorial practices. The analysis has called these journals “predatory” and found they comprised roughly 160,000 articles published on Scopus over ...
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Now is the time when all of our universities have more opportunity and need to explore, and counter, disruptive transformations to the higher education business model than ever before.
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Australian academic Sean Turnell, who was an economic adviser to Myanmar’s overthrown leader, has been detained following the military coup. The development comes just days after former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested. The Macquarie University professor began living ...
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Assertions that there is little encouragement by city-based universities to encourage their medical students to seek training and employment in rural areas is simply incorrect
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Researchers from the University of Queensland believe they may have found a root cause of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A breakthrough study by UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute has discovered a new 'seeding' process in brain cells which could help us ...
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The Australian National University has appointed Professor Michelle Ryan as the inaugural director of the university’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL). The institute was founded and chaired by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and is the first “sister” ...
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This article has two purposes. The first is to summarise the Productivity Commission’s Report on the National Skills and Workforce Development Agreement which has just been released with little fanfare in the heat haze of the summer holidays. As yet, there ...
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Researchers from the University of NSW have developed a biosecurity program they say could have prevented COVID-19 and believe it will be instrumental in thwarting future pandemics. UNSW’s head of biosecurity research, Raina MacIntyre, has spearheaded an intelligence program called Epiwatch that ...
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