The Australian Catholic University has been referred to health and safety regulators after allegedly forcing staff to return to campus. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said ACU failed to consult its staff on plans to return to face-to-face learning, ...
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Researchers say that if you work sitting down all day you should get up and move every half hour, or run the risk of serious ill health. A new study from an international consortium of scientists, including academics from the ...
More »Research suggests western media is undermining female leaders’ legitimacy
Western media’s coverage of female prime ministers’ gender and gender traits is getting worse, according to Australian National University (ANU) researcher Blair Williams. Williams explored the gendered nature of the news cycle in Australia, the UK and New Zealand as ...
More »It’s time to reappraise the civic role of the modern university: opinion
There exists a long and renowned history of ‘civic universities’ in the Anglosphere, and they are often compared and contrasted with the ‘ancient’ universities, sometimes seen as the repositories of tradition with their rituals, old buildings and formal codes of ...
More »ACU hit by cyber attack, staff emails compromised
In the second successful cyber attack on a university unearthed in the past month, Australian Catholic University has alerted its community to a data breach. Earlier this month, Australian National University revealed a hacker breached its systems in 2018, accessing ...
More »VC Craven defends Pell after guilty verdict
Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Greg Craven, a "dear friend" of Cardinal George Pell, remains loyal to him despite Pell's conviction for child sex offences. As one of ten character referees for Pell, Craven wrote that Pell is "...a deeply sensitive person; ...
More »ACU first Aussie uni to go hard on soft drinks
ACU has included a 'no added sugar' policy in its rule book, becoming the first Australian university to do so. After analysing vending machine offerings across its campuses and discovering that over half of beverages contained extra sweet stuff, they removed soft drinks, ...
More »Meet Australia’s highest-cited scholar
Professor Herb W. Marsh is in good company. The educational psychologist from ACU has joined Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky as one of the most-cited researchers in the world. According to a Spanish agency funded by the European ...
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