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A shortage of maths and science teachers at a Queensland high school has exposed the growing crisis facing schools in STEM subject areas. It has also reignited debate among academics and professional bodies about what can be done to attract ...

Apart from disciplines like law, medicine and education, others can provoke bemused looks among the public and “dismissive frowns” from academics in other departments. In this special piece from Times Higher Education (THE), several academics demystify their fields and explain ...

Every other week, two types of articles about online exams seem to come out: either students are being caught cheating remotely, or students (and some teachers) fear that the online vigilance of remote exams has the potential to be taken ...

Shanghai Rankings has released its full list of academic subject rankings overnight, showing that Australia has a host of top-100, top-20 and top-10 subjects appearing in the rankings. Griffith University is the top-ranked Australian university coming in at number two ...

Australian authorities are investigating popular adult content site OnlyFans over fears it is being used as a vehicle to traffic drugs, launder money and exploit children. NCA NewsWire understands financial crimes watchdog AUSTRAC and the Australian Federal Police are monitoring ...

Yesterday I came across an interesting piece of content on LinkedIn: a post by an individual who had completed a micro-credential course in digital journalism. The short course was free, online and awarded by Reuters, one of the largest (and ...

OZ TO USMarc Parlange, an Australian provost and senior vice-president, has been appointed president of the University of Rhode Island. Parlange moved to Monash in June 2017 from Vancouver, Canada, where he was dean of the Faculty of Applied Science ...

A team of Queensland scientists has co-developed a “gene-silencing” antiviral treatment that could effectively kill COVID-19 in what’s been dubbed an “important missing piece” in the arsenal against the virus. Nigel McMillan and his team from the Menzies Health Institute ...

Worried about the prevalence of academic misconduct at your institution? You might have good reason to be. While the Australian government moved to outlaw the advertisement and provision of contract cheating services in September 2020, it's unlikely to stamp out ...

Academics have voiced concerns that Turnitin’s proposal to buy competitor Ouriginal would give the company a near monopoly of the anti-plagiarism market, reducing diversity and giving the company a “treasure trove of data”.  Ouriginial is a Stockholm-based company that formed ...