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Policy & Reform
Future Made in Aus relies on universities and research, peak bodies say
Skills, training and educator bodies have backed the Prime Minister's Future Made in Australia Act that will grow Australia's in-house…
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Industry & Research
Monash partners with AFP to expand AI research program
Monash University has received a $4.4m funding boost to enhance its partnership with the Australian Federal Police (AFP), to support…
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Research Funding
Govt directs $400 million to medical research
University researchers will investigate the effects vaping on teenagers and launch a 'world first' trial to help treat drug-resistant epilepsy…
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Industry & Research
Academic journals caught in smokescreen
Publishers of globally respected academic journals are investigating the publication of papers linked to a foundation solely funded by one…
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News
ARC National Interest Test changes
The Australian Research Council has released a simplified version of the national interest test which will see disciplinary experts assess…
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Industry & Research
ARC consultation papers released
Following the review of the Australian Research Council Act, the government is now seeking feedback from academics and researchers before…
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News
Australian universities receive $94m in research fellowships
A hundred mid-career researchers from 21 Australian universities have received a grant through the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships scheme…
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Industry & Research
Four West Australian universities awarded $1m grant for defence research
Four West Australian universities have been granted government funding to develop cutting-edge research and defence technologies and contribute to Australian…
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Podcasts
How to deal with the fear of rejection in academia: podcast
The competitiveness of the higher education sector, particularly in relation to securing funding, often leaves researchers dealing with rejection. According…
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Industry & Research
Career disruptions can cost you a grant, especially if you are a woman
Experts have called to establish specialised peer review panels to help close the gender funding gap in academic research. A…
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Industry & Research
La Trobe research aims to make Australia a world leader in medicinal agricultural production
New research in protected cropping using medicinal cannabis by La Trobe University is aiming to develop Australia’s agricultural industry and…
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News
University research to lose estimated $7.6b, 11 per cent of workforce by 2024
Australian universities face a research support shortfall of up to $7.6 billion in the next five years, a new report…
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Industry & Research
$10m federal grants for suicide prevention research
The University of Melbourne, UNSW and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute were successful in receiving federal grants through the Million…
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Policy & Reform
Key stakeholders ‘disappointed’ over scrapping of education infrastructure fund
Legislation passed through the senate yesterday will see funds redirected away from the $3.95 billion Education Investment Fund (EIF) to…
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Funding
We must start listening to the experts: Opinion
I could easily style myself as an education expert: I have the prefix in front of my name that lends…
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Funding
Tehan: taskforce comes as ‘targeting of Australian universities continues to increase’
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled the details of a university foreign interference taskforce announced during his address to…
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News
Weekly roundup 3: PhD student sues JCU, top science scholars named, and Australian research wins big
Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our third weekly roundup. You can either read this…
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News
Dropout rates for online courses sparks work on new learning system
A system that takes stock of a student’s online learning activities and predicts the risk of academic failure is on the…
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News
Researchers riled by ARC funding delay
The Australian Research Council (ARC) funding announcement delay is increasingly raising concerns among researchers. ARC-funded projects are required to begin research…
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News
Taken from Peter? Sector reacts to regional university funding
Regional university students need more support – but not at the expense of the base funding of Australia’s research. That’s…
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Industry & Research
The tactics used by big business to influence research
Dr Alice Fabbri has never accepted industry money for research, nor have any of her colleagues at the Evidence, Policy and Influence…
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Funding
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…
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News
Peak body urges government, business to boost investment in R&D
Universities Australia is calling for significant reinvestment by government and business in research and development ahead of a Parliamentary inquiry…
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Industry & Research
Obscure research could be funded under new government metric
Sarah Hanson-Young: "Code for cuts is what this is." Simon Birmingham: "Sarah, you might love esoteric little papers, but we…
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