The impact of global warming has introduced new terms to our vocabulary, like anthropocene, biomass and carbon footprint. A word now gaining currency that has been around for a while, at least for whalers and glaciologists, is calving – the ...

As a Londoner living in this strange land, I've spent a good decade navigating the Aussie accent and the peculiarities of Aussie 'English'. An English accent can often stop an Aussie in their tracks, and not fully grasping Aussie slang ...

A US director of graduate studies has obliged with Duke University’s request for her to step down from her position after two emails she penned to students leaked online. Screenshots of the emails – through which Megan Neely, Assistant Professor ...

The NT government continues with a language education policy that is not supported by domestic and international research, writes Rosa McKenna. The Northern Territory Minister for Education and Training Chris Burns is wrong to continue with English-only classes for indigenous ...

The coverage of the NT languages policy in  Education Review  and Campus Review deserves a response in the interests of balance and accuracy. The draft policy and associated guidelines, “Literacy Framework for Students with English as an additional language” can be easily ...

A you-beaut program is teaching pharmacy students the Aussie lingo.  Pharmacy students from international backgrounds are learning Australian colloquialisms - as a matter of life and death. “Someone might tell a pharmacist they have a gut-ache, had a chunder, caught ...