Faculty Focus
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Analysis
HEDx Podcast: Kiki: Is AI a danger or an opportunity? – Episode 101
CampusReview · HEDx Podcast: Kiki: Is AI a danger or opportunity? - Episode 101> There is a widely held view…
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International Education
Unions NSW stands up for international students
Unions NSW has recommended each state and territory reconsider work and travel restrictions on international students to ease cost of…
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On Campus
Social work students struggle with 1,000 hours unpaid placement
Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi held a Senate roundtable earlier this month to call for an end to unpaid student work…
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News
UniMelb union members start seven-day strike
Union members at one of the nation's richest universities plan to strike for up to one week after negotiations between…
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Commentary
Post Covid issues of academic authenticity and integrity – opinion
COVID-19 and the rush to offer everything tertiary online has, as everybody appreciates, shifted the sands in respect to how…
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Commentary
Skunkworks, start-up or strategic priority: where is digital transformation in your university? Opinion
Skunkworks was the term given to a secret, small team of R&D engineers at Lockheed Corp in 1943 tasked with…
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News
Deakin Uni conference gives ex-cons a voice
They’ve done their time. Now, they’ll have the mic. Three out of the four keynote speakers at Deakin University’s Reintegration…
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Faculty Focus
Two Australian universities bestowed cybersecurity cash
Just glance at the news headlines and you will know that cyber warfare is here, and it's huge. It potentially…
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News
California dreaming no more: Curtin students head to Stanford
Supawit Mahaguna, aged 21, was born in Thailand. Now a Bachelor of Commerce (International Business) student at Curtin University, he has…
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Industry & Research
Paleontologists discover kangaroo-sized flying turkey
It wasn’t a bird, nor a plane. It would’ve been a grey kangaroo-sized giant, flying turkey. A team of paleontologists…
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Industry & Research
USYD’s brave new humanoid world
China’s largest consumer humanoid robotics company, UBTECH, has partnered with the University of Sydney to establish the UBTECH Sydney Artificial…
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Faculty Focus
Plain Jane no more: Monash Uni reanimates Austen
Jane Austen would surely feel pride, not prejudice, at the opening of a new exhibit in her honour, marking 200…
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Faculty Focus
Philip Payton, international man of history
Despite his many past achievements, Philip Payton was surprised to be awarded South Australian Historian of the Year by the…
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Events
Sydney University hosts ‘inspirational’ John McCain
Arizona Senator, chair of the US Armed Services Committee, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and Vietnam War veteran are all labels ascribed…
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Industry & Research
Antidepressant linked to increased risk of birth defects
Fluoxetine, the antidepressant in drugs such as Prozac and Lovan, has been found to increase the risk of birth defects…
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Faculty Focus
Relief, to the tune of $12.5 million, for ANU School of Music
The Australian National University has offered its School of Music a $12.5 million boost after admitting mismanagement allowed “distrust and…
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Co-operative effort to benchmark standards in accountancy courses
Academics, employers and recent graduates are collaborating on a project aiming to benchmark national learning and teaching standards for accounting. The…
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The art of imitation
Quality placements for student teachers are vital components of all education degrees but they are currently underfunded and poorly…
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Heads in the cloud
With speculation about the death of the traditional laptop, mobile and cloud computing are undoubtedly the hottest topics in the…
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Nursing programs go online as research blossoms
The future of university nursing programs will give students the flexibility to study online, fast-track their way to registration and…
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Poor funding equals poor lawyering
Tomorrow’s lawyers will be poorly trained and unable to meet Australia’s economic and social needs if the nation’s law schools…
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Science enrolments up but challenges still exist
Australia punches above its funding weight in science research Natasha Egan finds as she looks at faculties across the country…
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Four universities sign $25m research deal with steel producer
Minerals engineering research gets a boost as efforts continue to increase overall graduate numbers in the associated disciplines While statistics…
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Dry-lab biology – transforming health and life science research
Researchers today have the understanding and technologies to investigate life at all levels. Medical imaging, genomics, structural biology, integrated biological…
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Health science faculties fear research cuts
Health science faculties have strong reputations for meeting the demand for health care professionals with high-quality graduates. Some are worried…
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