Most Australian parents are happy to get their children vaccinated, according to a new analysis by the Australian National University. A survey of over 3000 adults found that four in five parents were likely to get their children vaccinated if ...

A study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Australian academics and their respective institutions has just been released, highlighting some concerning findings but also some "silver linings". The study, published in the Higher Education Research and Development journal and ...

Sydney Islamic leaders have banded together to push their communities to get vaccinated as authorities struggle to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the city’s west. The NSW government on Thursday 19 August revealed the suburbs with the fastest growing ...

A handful of students from a top university have been expelled from their accommodation after they hosted dorm room parties during lockdown. The students have been removed from Campus East of the University of Wollongong (UOW) for breaching NSW Health orders by having two gatherings ...

Virtually overnight, IT teams across the higher education sector leapt into action to transition lesson delivery from face-to-face to online in the face of COVID-19 restrictions.  But the feat of making the impossible possible unearthed some valuable learnings. It was ...

At a time when vaccine hesitancy and misinformation has gathered traction in some circles around the world, it seems unbelievable that a peer-reviewed journal would be complicit in promulgating similar mistruths. But that is exactly what has recently happened.  A ...

The life-threatening and economic hazards of relaxing Covid-19 restrictions before zero community spread is reached validates the decision by NSW to extend its lockdown, researchers suggest. A team of economists, public health experts and modellers from the Australian National University found the ...

An Australian professor has shone a light on the Covid‐19 variant that is wreaking havoc on Victoria. UNSW associate professor Stuart Turville said the Indian strain, as it has become known, was one of three that had spread throughout the ...

Leading epidemiologists are warning that Australians will not be fully vaccinated by Christmas, based on the current speed of the sluggish rollout, as Victorians were on Sunday turned away from getting the jab. The state’s struggling vaccination program was blasted ...

CampusReview · Annual survey reveals the stress levels and stressors of students in 2020 - podcast As the 2021 Australian university year is in full swing, research commissioned by Studiosity revealed that 38 per cent of students were feeling stressed ...