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The Australian Human Rights Commission has today unveiled an Australian-first survey into the experiences of sexual harassment and assault by students at Australian universities. The survey is being conducted at the behest of Universities Australia. This survey is the latest ...
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This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Dr Russell Sinclair has been researching botany at a single reserve for the past 40 years. We ...
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The Australian Research Council has defended its funding of humanities studies, following media reports criticising the body for spending taxpayer dollars on “absurd and obscure” research. The Daily Telegraph today lambasted the ARC for its latest wave of funding to humanities research ...
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In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite ...
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With nearly one-third of people with epilepsy having forms resistant to current medication, some people turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope based on anecdotal evidence that it will work. Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership with ...
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This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Dr Kimberley-Joy Knight is an expert in all this Scandanavia, focusing on the region's rich and diverse histories, cultures ...
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