Newcastle University will require thousands of undergraduate students to complete work placements as part of their degrees in efforts to better prepare graduates for the workforce. Starting this year, more than 7000 undergraduate students will have work experience embedded into ...
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Teachers are concerned the future of Australia’s arts and entertainment industry looks bleak as theatre courses are cut across the country. Triggered by staff redundancies and course cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two well-regarded theatre and drama degrees have ...
More »Newcastle tops THE young ones
Fourteen local unis make it into world’s top 100 under 50. By Antonia Maiolo. Newcastle University is the top-ranked Australian entry in the latest league table of the world’s best 100 institutions aged under 50, followed by 14 other ...
More »Sounds that sock it to us
The screeching of a knife on a glass bottle has been found to be the worst sound to the human ear by scientists at Newcastle University in the UK. Researchers found that people ranked the sound of a fork on ...
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