Understanding how your body clock works could help to improve productivity, quality of research and overall well-being. Sydney University business professor Stefan Volk said the body clock determines when people are at their best physically, mentally and emotionally, which can ...
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Improved menopause guidelines could keep senior academics on the job: podcast
Improved policies and communication around menopause at university could tackle the loss of senior academics’ expertise and recruit more women into leadership positions, an expert said. Health and wellbeing researcher at Macquarie University professor Rebecca Mitchell said while menopause impacts ...
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Associate Professor Jack Wang of UQ was Australian University Teacher of the Year in 2020 outlines seven phases of teaching innovation in Australian universities. He believes universities have left us in "no mans land" as students decline to join staff in ...
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Removing assignment due dates reduces students’ stress and anxiety while giving staff more flexibility around lectures and marking, new study shows. The study, conducted by Central Queensland University researchers, focused on 'hyperflexible' learning; which allows students access to their unit ...
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Ian Dunn, provost of Coventry University joins HEDx to share the secrets of success of the UK's top younger university for graduate career prospects. In today's podcast, Ian discusses how the UK university has gained a global reputation for innovation ...
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Federal education minister Jason Clare will announce the details of the Australian Universities Accord, including its panel of “eminent Australians” and their terms of reference, next month. Speaking to the University Chancellor's Council last week, the minister said the bipartisan ...
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For the first time in its 235-year history since 1787 the United States Supreme Court has a female African-American Associate Justice: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. This is to be commemorated but it would not change the right-wing orientation of the ...
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Undergraduate research students are an essential part of tomorrow’s academic workforce, but a lack of access to resources and overall recognition could hinder Australia’s future research output, an expert says. University of Sydney higher education scholar Dr Lilia Mantai says ...
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Linguistic racism on campus is affecting international students and researchers mental health, career prospects and motivation, experts say. “On Australian campuses, linguistic racism happens in the form of social exclusion, interpersonal and institutional rejections and other microaggressions," Curtin University associate ...
More »HEDx Podcast – The future in the post COVID era, episode 59
Duncan Maskell VC of Melbourne University shares his passion for the public good purpose of our universities and his thanks for the commitment of his staff to keeping the university going as he enters the fifth year of his tenure at ...
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