Just glance at the news headlines and you will know that cyber warfare is here, and it's huge. It potentially cost Hillary Clinton the US election, and almost foiled Emmanuel Macron’s French presidential plans. Now, the Australian government is investing ...
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There's a strong chance that carers, overseers and educators at preschool facilities need a refresher course, or maybe even an introduction, into first aid treatment for burns and scalds of youngsters. That's the key takeout from a revelatory study conducted ...
More »California dreaming no more: Curtin students head to Stanford
Supawit Mahaguna, aged 21, was born in Thailand. Now a Bachelor of Commerce (International Business) student at Curtin University, he has stumbled on greater success with, literally, the click of an email. "I received an email about [the opportunity]. At the ...
More »USC painting the town yellow to support GF-bound Lightning netball team
Excitement is building at the University of the Sunshine Coast! USC's joint venture netball team with the Melbourne Storm NRL franchise, the Sunshine Coast Lightning is playing Giants Netball, a Sydney-based VII affiliated with the GWS Giants of the AFL, in ...
More »Uni attrition rate stats provoke HESPy reaction
It’s spotlight time for the lengthily-named higher education regulators and advisors, TESQA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency) and HESP (Higher Education Standards Panel). First, TEQSA released first-year university attrition statistics. Now, HESP is commenting on them, as well as ...
More »Paleontologists discover kangaroo-sized flying turkey
It wasn’t a bird, nor a plane. It would’ve been a grey kangaroo-sized giant, flying turkey. A team of paleontologists from Flinders University have discovered the remains of five extinct megapodes – medium-to-large chicken-like birds with small heads – one ...
More »Student fee changes up for debate
They were a suitably contrarian trio. Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sophie Johnston, president of the National Union of Students, and Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, graced the stage at the ...
More »USYD’s brave new humanoid world
China’s largest consumer humanoid robotics company, UBTECH, has partnered with the University of Sydney to establish the UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Centre. Based at the university’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, the centre is dedicated to research into intelligent ...
More »Big changes on big campuses from big data
Universities and high school campuses are diverse places. People come and go throughout the day, students congregate in different locations and a large number of rooms are utilised at any given time. Who’s on campus, what are students and teachers ...
More »Plain Jane no more: Monash Uni reanimates Austen
Jane Austen would surely feel pride, not prejudice, at the opening of a new exhibit in her honour, marking 200 years since her death. Jane Austen, By a Lady is a collaboration between Monash emeritus professor of medicine Chris Browne ...
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