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Australia’s homegrown COVID-19 vaccine candidate had potential but the false positives on HIV tests were too great a hurdle to move it into further trials, a study published this week has confirmed. The University of Queensland vaccine was abandoned last ...

Victoria will become the first state in Australia to develop mRNA vaccine manufacturing, making previously hard-to-access jabs more attainable locally in a year. The technology to manufacture the vaccines onshore will take at least 12 months to develop, with deputy ...

The peak body for independent providers in higher education, vocational education, training and skills sectors has just released its blueprint for a skilled and educated workforce of tomorrow. Titled Seven Priorities For A Skilled And Educated Workforce, the Independent Tertiary ...

Incivility is "almost a standard component” of the dean’s role in universities – and the issue is getting worse. That was one of the key findings to come from interviews with 20 faculty deans across eight universities. The study, by La ...

This (sort of) commemorative article will try to juxtapose an aspect of the Thomist lex aeterna (in Latin, English translation ‘eternal law’) with two other concepts arguably derived from anthropology and feminist legal theory to be discussed below. Apart from ...

Preliminary findings from a University of Sydney study have found that work from home policies have had the greatest impact on transport use in Australia in 70 years.  Researchers concluded that such policies could save employees on average two hours ...

Perhaps, just as questions about age, gender preferences and politics have been made redundant (even illegal), job applicants should no longer be required to name where they studied and recruitment processes should have institutions’ names redacted from all applicants’ listed ...

“Improving indoor thermal and environmental quality is as important as improving the teaching material in the classroom.” That’s the call from associate lecturer Dr Shamila Haddad, lead author on a study that found many Australian school kids are learning in ...

Home-grown acts of terrorism in the UK will escalate if politicians fail to rebuild the public's trust. That's the view of Dr Frens Kroeger, Assistant Professor at Coventry Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. Kroeger's "sobering claim" follows the ...

An urban planner who wants to promote more cyclists to hit the roads has launched a survey asking whether clothes like Lycra make them seem “less human”. Dr Mark Limb was inspired by a 2019 study showing drivers think of ...