There exists a long and renowned history of ‘civic universities’ in the Anglosphere, and they are often compared and contrasted with the ‘ancient’ universities, sometimes seen as the repositories of tradition with their rituals, old buildings and formal codes of ...
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For Indian students exploring study abroad opportunities, managing tuition fees, travel and other expenses is often a tricky task. With nearly three-quarters of a million Indian students studying overseas and many more planning to follow suit every year, fully financing ...
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Hi, and welcome to episode nine of our weekly top stories review. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor for Campus Review. All stories can be found on our site, campusreview.com.au. The leading story we covered this week was unfortunately not ...
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Everyone in academia can empathise with that feeling of frustration that accompanies lengthy writing tasks, such as theses, journal chapters and edited books. Words, phrases and syntactical choices are pored over; paragraphs are experimented with, adapted and sometimes cast away; ...
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Tensions over China’s controversial Hong Kong extradition law boiled over at one of Australia’s top universities this week, with pro-Hong Kong and pro-Chinese students clashing on the university’s market day. Nilsson Jones, editor of the university’s student magazine Semper Floreat, ...
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A new report has warned that Australian education institutions are ill-prepared for the cyber-security threats of the digital age. Commissioned by cyber security group Cisco, the report provides clues as to why successful cyber attacks are happening more often and ...
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A child who once struggled with literacy now reads to her younger brother. Music lifts the spirits of a woman living with dementia. The daughter of a woman who survived cervical cancer knows she will never inheret the disease. These ...
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