The 1 February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar (Burma) stated as a ‘declaration of emergency’ is being described as ‘a major cabinet reshuffle’ by the Chinese government official media. That ‘major government reshuffle’ has generated a lot of articles. This article will ...

Assertions that there is little encouragement by city-based universities to encourage their medical students to seek training and employment in rural areas is simply incorrect

Gentle reader: During the past 24 hours while you slept you dreamt. You may not recall your dream but you did dream, or so say contemporary neurologists and scientists. For millennia there have been many treatises, tracts or plain ‘hocus ...

Australian students’ performance in writing has attracted a lot of attention this year, particularly in the middle years where NAPLAN results are regularly scrutinised. But, while no one disputes the importance of the middle years, it is the senior years ...

In the early afternoon of 8 November 2016 in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma) the results of the 2016 United States presidential election became available through radio and television broadcasts. A then 12- or 13-year-old Burmese girl, my former neighbour in ...

The rigour vs relevance debate has raged in business schools since their inception. In the early days, most professors were retired or were very experienced executives whose role was to narrate war stories to students. Students found their education highly ...

Last week, many medical researchers returned to their labs after many of them packed up and left at the start of the COVID-19 isolation back in March. Many scientists turned their attention to studying the virus, and these labs stayed ...

The disruption to community and professional sport is among the most deeply felt casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. Business models that were once considered untouchable and perennially healthy were exposed as utterly vulnerable when forced to shut down overnight. Without ...

Australia’s tourism, hospitality and events (THE) industries have been hit hard by the recent bushfires, followed by the COVID-19 emergency. In recent years, THE has been a major driver of jobs and economic growth, but the Tourism and Transport Forum ...

Tolerant, but still pretty ignorant. This is the assessment of a recent, comprehensive paper into Gen Z’s faith literacy – and one which the researchers find concerning, particularly for a society which is one of the world’s most super-diverse in ...