Known Australian colonial-era massacres could total over 500 by the end of a comprehensive university study. A University of Newcastle team is collating a Colonial Frontier Massacres Map, charting verified and recorded mass killings, largely of indigenous people, across the ...
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Attention coders, salespeople and user experience (UX) designers: startups want you. These were the three most in-demand industry skills, as revealed by a StartupAUS report launched on Thursday. In its report, Australia's peak national advocacy group for startups, in collaboration with Microsoft, UTS and Google, also ...
More »Unis are helping asylum seekers and refugees where the government isn’t
As a Master of Information Systems and Technology student at Curtin University, Muhammad Majid, 28, was so poor he couldn't afford textbooks. He would either borrow them from the library – if they weren't already borrowed by someone else, or ...
More »Australia predicted to overtake UK in international student market
Australia is likely to overtake the UK to become the second most popular destination globally for international students, a new report suggests. In fact, it might already be the case. The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) paper used standardised UNESCO ...
More »Australia, America at odds on campus sexual assault policy
As Australia inches towards a less legalistic, more accuser-centric mode of dealing with university sexual assault, America is ebbing away from it. In September 2017, US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced interim measures that allowed cross-examination of sexual assault accusers and mediation ...
More »Beyond a legal approach: universities get new sexual assault, harassment guidelines
A specialist-trained single point of contact for students and a de-identified data collection mechanism are two of the suggestions put forward in a new set of guidelines for universities to support students who report sexual assault and harassment. The guidelines, ...
More »An ethicist’s take on those ‘obscene’ turtle researcher photos
Would you rescind an award if the recipient included 'racy' photographs in a presentation? The Herpetologists’ League would. The American society of amphibian and reptile researchers revoked renown turtle researcher Richard Vogt's Distinguished Herpetologist award. This followed an audience outcry, largely on Twitter, for ...
More »Australian academic subjects make marks on global ranking
UNSW Sydney has sent more subjects into a global ranking than any other Australian institution, while another took out one of the top spots. With 38 subjects ranking in the global top 100 of ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects ...
More »CTO Spotlight: How Stuart Hildyard is driving digital transformation to improve the staff and student experience at La Trobe University
“TechnologyOne SaaS has allowed us to be more innovative, so we can remain competitive”: Stuart Hildyard, Chief Technology Officer, La Trobe University La Trobe University Chief Technology Officer Stuart Hildyard has had a long, illustrious career in student and software ...
More »Scoop or get scooped: journal rejects ‘first to publish’ mentality
Competing researchers don't usually co-author discussion papers – unless, perhaps, they're discussing their rivalry. Such is the case with Jacob Corn and Jin-Soo Kim. On Monday, the genome editing researchers (from the University of California, Berkeley and Seoul National University respectively), ...
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