Former James Cook University academic and world-renowned expert in marine physics Professor Peter Ridd has started a GoFundMe page to cover legal costs needed to continue his fight against JCU’s unfair dismissal claim. In mid-April the Federal Circuit Court ordered ...
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Parental licensing has long been mulled over by academic philosophers and political scientists, but a social work researcher says the idea is fraught with problems. James Cook University’s Dr Frank Ainsworth reviewed international studies on parental licensing – the idea ...
More »PhD student sues James Cook for $3m over damage to career and sex drive
Alleging James Cook University is in a “conspiracy” to ruin his career, a PhD Philosophy student is suing the university for $3.125 million in damages and compensation. In a 20-page petition submitted to the Supreme Court, 52-year-old Kuldeep Mann claims ...
More »IRU says current funding model stifles innovation, calls for greater research autonomy
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group wants universities to have more say in how they spend their funding dollars. They say that universities only get to fully determine how a fifth of their endowment is spent. Raising the issue yesterday at the House of Representatives Inquiry ...
More »Postgraduate study unlocks professional advancement: opinion
Job opportunities for nurses are growing faster than the workforce as a whole, and nurses with postgraduate qualifications will reap the greatest rewards as the health industry expands and becomes more complex. The evolution of the industry is being driven ...
More »Nursing shortage forecast to raise incomes for those with post-grad qualifications
Nurses may be able to double their income by taking on further study, with workforce shortages predicted for the near future. The conclusion was made in a new report – The Future of Work: Occupational and Education Trends in Nursing in ...
More »Australia’s day after: have universities lost sight of their core mission?
How are we preparing graduates for these times and the next? How are we preparing our polity, our economy, our society for these times and the next? Some time ago now, in a discussion about why China is investing heavily in ...
More »Passing the blood test
The US navy is bankrolling an Australian scientist’s research to slow hemorrhaging and buy time for emergency response teams. An Australian researcher who developed a suspended animation drug that could save wounded soldiers has been forced to seek funding from ...
More »Vaccine could reduce risk from cats
Cairns molecular biologist Dr Rob Walker is working with an international research team to develop a vaccine to prevent cats from infecting humans with dangerous parasites. The James Cook University scientist is focusing his research on Toxoplasma gondii, a ...
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