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University staff are increasingly working in their spare time, with new research showing that 50 per cent of academics and professional staff receive work-related texts, calls and emails from colleagues on the weekend. The research from the University of South ...

The government has appointed ex-Nationals senator Fiona Nash Australia’s first Regional Education Commissioner. Created in the wake of the Napthine Review, the role of the commissioner will be to oversee the implementation of the strategy to improve regional, rural and ...

Murdoch University has announced Professor Andrew J Deeks as its new Vice Chancellor, starting in April 2022. Deeks comes to Murdoch from University College Dublin, where he has served as president since 2014. He was the first Australian to lead ...

BENNETT GETS THE GONG Professor Sue Bennett is the University of Wollongong’s new executive dean of the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Bennett has been acting executive dean since May this year, and brings nearly 30 years’ ...

School leavers eyeing off a future in hospitality, child care or a trade could soon receive free training under a proposal designed to help sectors smashed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In an address to Labor faithful in Sydney, Anthony Albanese ...

Alan Tudge has been asked to stand aside while serious allegations raised by a former staff member are investigated. The Education Minister went public with his extramarital affair with former staffer Rachelle Miller last year. But on Thursday, Miller came forward with ...

Facebook’s recent rebrand to Meta is a pretty clear signal that the Metaverse will soon be a serious business proposition. And with its imminent expansion comes opportunities limited only by our imagination. But what is the Metaverse? Put simply, the ...

The first Australian lab to manufacture the mRNA vaccine has some good news for those concerned about the efficacy of the Covid-19 jab against the new Omicron variant. The Monash University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences on Tuesday said it was well prepared ...

A long black or three a day could be a helpful way to stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to a new long-term study. Researchers from Edith Cowan University investigated whether coffee intake affected the cognitive decline of more than 200 ...

An American teen aquitted of murder at a Black Lives Matter protest has casued controversy at Arizona State Univeristy by telling the media he intends to attend classes on campus. Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of murdering two people and injuring ...