Hundreds of staff at Queensland University have announced plans to go on strike over job security, fair pay and improved working conditions after the union accused management of “dragging their feet". On Wednesday, staff and students plan to walk off ...
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The University of Queensland has pledged to boost enrolment rates of First Nations, low socio-economic, regional and other disadvantaged students by 2032. Speaking at the university’s new Brisbane campus last week, UQ vice chancellor professor Deborah Terry announced the new ...
More »USQ-led rocket hub to launch Australia’s space economy
The University of Southern Queensland will build a new rocket manufacturing hub as part of a commercialisation project geared to developing Australia's budding space industry. On Monday, the Coalition government announced the last round of Trailblazer grants, which awarded USQ ...
More »Keeping it local: $20m plan to bring a university to the outback town of Mount Isa
It’s a perennial problem facing thousands of school leavers: should I stay or should I go? While many teenagers cannot wait to leave a small town like Mount Isa (population roughly 21,000), jumping into second-hand cars with their friends, giddy ...
More »Microbiologist with engaging, novel teaching approach receives coveted teacher of the year award
Associate Professor Jack Wang has taken out the prestigious Australian University Teacher of the Year award for 2020, with the University of Queensland microbiologist recognised for his novel approaches to teaching nurses and doctors about COVID-19 and medical hygiene. Part ...
More »UQ study finds underinvestment is blocking efforts to house ‘rough sleepers’
A University of Queensland partnership between public and not-for-profit agencies has been given the green light to deploy a strategy that hopes to end the scourge of homelessness in Brisbane. However, as two UQ researchers in charge of the project ...
More »Qld universities in strong position: QTAC CEO
Despite the University of Queensland being the highest ranked university in the state, QTAC applications show the Queensland University of Technology has overtaken UQ in four of the top five courses for 2020. Campus Review spoke to Dr John Griffiths, CEO of ...
More »No Ramsay Centre degree for UQ if Board of Studies has its way
University of Queensland academics have voted against the proposed curriculum for the Ramsay Centre’s revised Western civilisation degree. The move by UQ’s Board of Studies of Humanities and Social Scientists (HASS) at a meeting on Monday followed an earlier vote ...
More »What’s with universities and dogs?
Scroll through university social media for long enough and you will come across numerous dog posts. Whether it's a pooch 'getting ahead' on his readings for the upcoming semester at UQ, or UWA law school's resident sausage dog, Julius Caesar Juris Dogtor, ...
More »On the move: September
Retiring after 67 years at UQ The University of Queensland’s Emeritus Professor Edward White, better known as Ted, from the School of Chemical Engineering, is about to hang up his academic gown. Ted has been a fixture of UQ for a ...
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