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Change is happening at such a pace in the education sector, that universities can no longer pause their digital transformation plans. This article explores the pivotal trends emerging in this dynamic education sector. The COVID-19 pandemic has fast-tracked the disruption ...

A series of recent announcements about Australia’s borders reopening mean there is hope of an end to the crisis in our international education sector. But there is still a long way to go. Over 145,000 international student visa holders are ...

Words and phrases are quite often borrowed from other languages to express a concept for which there is no existing term – think of schadenfreude or déjà vu in English (from German and French respectively). Less frequently, a completely new ...

Kent Anderson, deputy vice-chancellor at Newcastle university, joins us soon after a two-year spell in ministers' Tehan and Tudge's office guiding recent policy changes. He comments on the divide between chancelleries and ministry that has developed in recent years, and ...

A fresh legal challenge to Covid-19 vaccination mandates for health workers in NSW is “very different” to the two lawsuits knocked back last week, a court has been told. John Edward Larter, a paramedic and deputy mayor of the Snowy Valleys Council, ...

A Macquarie University study has discovered that children who are affected by injury are more likely to have worse educational outcomes than their peers and less likely to complete high school and tertiary study.  The study was led by Associate ...

Waking up at 3am in the morning and worrying is a common experience, and researchers have unpacked why we have late night sleep disturbances and how we can avoid it. Professor Greg Murray, a clinical psychologist and director of the ...

Researchers at the Australian National University have found that high blood pressure – albeit within the safe recommended range – could hasten brain ageing. Normal blood pressure is defined by pressure below 120/80, whereas an optimal and healthier blood pressure ...

Previous Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and Hermann Muller, are acknowledged for making some of the most historic contributions in their respective scientific fields, be that physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology.  There have been female Nobel winners too, such ...

When the pandemic hit Australian university campuses in March 2020, institutions were scrambling to transition to online learning. However, as luck would have it, in the first months of 2020, educational designer Frances Cochrane was in the early stages of ...