Industry & Research
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Commentary
The University of Toxicity: Managerialism and the rise of Professor Toxic (part 2)
The rise of managerialism and academic capitalism in modern universities. In our first instalment, we described how universities now operate…
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Industry & Research
You’re not as thin as you think, researchers say
Have you ever wondered if the way you see yourself is accurate? Researchers from the University of Western Australia say “psychological…
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Commentary
An empire of scraps: the university research model
The way university research is measured and rewarded needs to change. Helen Razer has called these times an Age of…
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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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Industry & Research
Links between universities and industry patently fine: report
Despite ugly-looking past figures and rumours that these numbers persist, universities and industry are collaborating just fine. Such is the…
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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
Uni attrition rate stats provoke HESPy reaction
It’s spotlight time for the lengthily-named higher education regulators and advisors, TESQA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency) and HESP…
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Analysis
Degree dump: latest attrition stats released
The who, where and why of higher education attrition have been revealed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency…
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Analysis
What keeps university leaders up at night?
I’m not at all confident that the university or anything like its current form will be here for even 20…
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Industry & Research
Go8 singled out for a $200 million boost
Disrupt or die seems to be the latest business mantra, and universities are on board. Specifically, the Group of Eight (Go8)…
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Analysis
Indigenous gap closing thanks to VET
Indigenous youths are becoming more educated, and are thereby helping to Close the Gap, according to a new report from…
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Funding
Government’s science roadmap ‘needs fuel’: Universities Australia
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which hosts research into exotic livestock diseases, is just one facility flagged for upgrade under…
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Industry & Research
Fish and microbeads study becomes fishier
Did you or someone you know shun microbeads, common in skin exfoliants, last year? If so, it was probably due…
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Industry & Research
UC enters STEM education research partnership with Samsung
Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning…
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News
Innovation talk ‘hijacked’ by tech start-ups: minister
The innovation debate has been hijacked by the tech start-up space, the federal assistant minister for industry, innovation and science…
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Funding
Local unis would be ‘crazy’ to avoid China: Spence
With the University of Sydney strengthening its ties with China, as demonstrated by the opening of its first Chinese address…
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Events
UTS aims for autonomy at intersection of innovation, industry
Chinese technology brand Huawei hosted its Asia-Pacific Innovation Day – which is actually two days – labeled 'The Brilliance of…
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Industry & Research
Report shows industry-sponsored research may be biased
The first of a series of studies may confirm the belief that food industry-sponsored research is more likely to favour the sponsors,…
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Industry & Research
ARC cranks out $416.6 million in latest research funding wave
The Australian Research Council has allocated $416.6 million for 989 new research projects in the latest wave of federal government research…
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Industry & Research
Top women researchers honoured in productivity awards
The inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards were presented this week at the Australian National University, honouring the top dozen early-…
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Industry & Research
Meet the recipients of Australia’s top science honours
A cane toad pioneer, an innovator who developed a $100 million software program that detects stock market fraud, a researcher…
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Commentary
Publishing academic papers: a high-stakes name game
The unprecedented focus on published research and grants for career advancement has generated some contested issues related to who gets…
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Industry & Research
ADHD linked to a trajectory of disadvantage
University of Queensland researchers have linked ADHD and conduct disorder (CD) to a trajectory of disadvantage, as these children are…
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Industry & Research
ANU physicists’ achievement like something out of ‘Star Wars’
Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren and a team of physicists at the Australian National University have something…
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Industry & Research
Local anti-jail programs lack scientific rigor: study
An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the…
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