National newspaper The Australian does not have an internship program. Nonetheless, a few years ago, a young woman interned there, by virtue of the fact that she was a company bigwig's daughter. This woman is now a prominent journalist at a different ...
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Romantic love won't be celebrated this year at the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city. To much chagrin, the university – one of the nation's best – has issued a 'ban' on Valentine's Day. In its place, Vice ...
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Contrary to popular thought, orthodontic treatment will not prevent future tooth decay, researchers have argued. The University of Adelaide team assessed the long-term dental health of 448 people and discovered that those who had orthodontic treatment did not have better ...
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A sorority has expelled one of its members following the upload of a video showing a woman in blackface using what sounds like a racist slur. The video shows a student covering her face and hands in black paint and ...
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Students who feel engaged with their courses and institutions are more likely to succeed and less likely to drop out; key considerations for providers in Australia’s competitive vocational and higher education sector. So, how can providers leverage digital technology to ...
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As summer peaks, so does the incidence of music festivals; a rite of passage for many young Australians. Yet increasingly, these frivolous events are tinged with tragedy. Over the weekend, 19 year-old Alex Ross-King died at FOMO Festival – the fifth ...
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China has again dominated a ranking of universities from emerging economies. Unsurprisingly, seven of the top ten positions on Times Higher Education’s (THE) Emerging Economies University Ranking 2019 were held by Chinese institutions. Tsinghua University took out the top spot ...
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The issue of population growth made headlines a number of times in 2018 – Prime Minister Scott Morrison flagged cutting migration and earlier in the year Four Corners explored our readiness for a ‘Big Australia’ – so what does the ...
More »Nobel laureate stripped of honours after ‘reprehensible’ statements
In 2007 James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, said that black people are genetically inferior. In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, he voiced that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" as "all our social policies are based ...
More »Indian scientists outraged by wacky remarks at annual congress
You would be forgiven for thinking you misheard certain comments at the latest Indian Science Congress. Among them: Einstein's theory of relativity was "a big blunder"; gods created dinosaurs; and gravitational waves should be renamed 'Narendra Modi waves'. Opened by ...
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