News broke this week that China issued a warning to citizens intending to travel to Australia to “exercise caution” and conduct a “good risk assessment” due to racism against people of Asian descent, but Australian pundits have rejected the claims. ...
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ANU researchers develop temperature record that eclipses the Bureau of Meteorology’s
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have tracked back to 1838 to record a daily temperature record, identifying more heatwaves since the pre-industrial period and a decrease in cold snaps. Dr Joelle Gergis, lead researcher from the ANU, said the ...
More »Federal government’s VET overhaul: the sector reacts
The Prime Minister has this week announced major reforms of Australia’s “clunky and unresponsive” vocational education and training system. In an address at the National Press Club, Scott Morrison said there was a lack of information about what future skills ...
More »$10m federal grants for suicide prevention research
The University of Melbourne, UNSW and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute were successful in receiving federal grants through the Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission.
More »JobKeeper accounting error won’t mean money for uni staff
The government has confirmed that the JobKeeper scheme won’t be expanded to workers who missed out, after news broke of a $60 billion forecasting error. Following the government’s announcement last week that the accounting error would see the JobKeeper package ...
More »The return to sport is a chance to focus on health, not just competition
The disruption to community and professional sport is among the most deeply felt casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. Business models that were once considered untouchable and perennially healthy were exposed as utterly vulnerable when forced to shut down overnight. Without ...
More »Transforming higher education in the post COVID-19 world
Universities could axe their end-of-semester exams, big lectures and even paper as trends emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher education will emerge into the ‘new normal’ with an evolved learning and teaching model. More authentic assessments, individualised lifelong learning and face-to-face ...
More »How the University of Sydney is preserving the pandemic for posterity
“We are creating a collection to preserve the daily individual reality of the pandemic’s impact on the university community”
More »Australia’s tertiary education system: Repair to the past or rebuild for the future?
One of the learnings from the extraordinary public health, social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the depth and duration of which is yet to be fully experienced, is to clearly identify and deliberately find solutions to each ‘next highest ...
More »The magnitude of COVID-19 on higher education: Opinion
The novel coronavirus outbreak has created chaos in all aspects of our conventional life. Though this is primarily a health crisis, it has severely affected all forms of businesses worldwide. Unemployment rates have been rising steeply, and it has created ...
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