Staff at the University of New South Wales have gone on strike today to secure more permanent roles for casual academic and professional staff. After a year of delayed negotiations, hundreds of UNSW staff and students will be on the ...
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Astronomers at Swinburne University will use the new James Webb Space Telescope, located 1.5 million km from earth, to make the first three-dimensional map of the universe as it was in the period known as “cosmic morning”, between 10 and ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How do you plan for what a university will look like in 35 years time? Episode 73
Professor Vivek Goel as President of Waterloo University in Canada is leading an exercise to generate a vision for what Waterloo will look like at 100. This 35 year future planning horizon is unheralded in global universities and generates a unique perspective on risk, ...
More »Two more unis pause recruitment from India as PM signs new student visa deal
Two additional Australian universities have banned the admission of Indian students in response to concerns over fraudulent visa applications. Victoria’s Federation University and Western Sydney University (WSU) have halted recruitment from students from six Indian states, including Punjab, Haryana and ...
More »International students in Australia are going hungry: study
International students studying in Australia are going hungry at an "alarming rate" according to a new report. Monash University researchers interviewed 60 overseas students across Melbourne last year and found nearly half were struggling to afford basic groceries due to ...
More »Major changes in the world’s population of learners: opinion
The global world of higher education has been depicted for generations as a continuously expanding landscape, of campus-based places, where young people visit, reside, and interact. The settings have been for young people to pursue study, experience rites of passage, ...
More »HEDx Podcast: The emerging population crisis and its impact on global universities – Episode 72
Data Scientist Stephen Shaw founded birthgap.org following his work surfacing the growing global gaps in birth rates from that required to sustain populations. He has found that all countries will see a dramatic fall in future populations due to births falling below a replacement rate of 2.1. ...
More »Key WA unis say no to mergers
The West Australian government faces strong resistance to mergers from most of the state’s public universities, signalling a major battle ahead if a review now under way recommends joining one or more institutions. Murdoch University vice-chancellor Andrew Deeks said his ...
More »International students reluctant to enroll without secure housing
One in two international students are reluctant to enrol in Australian Universities due to a lack of secure accommodation, according to the results of a new survey. Amid a rental crisis which will see Australia fall short of 106,300 homes ...
More »Meet the QUT professor who figured out Covid-19 was airborne
When the pandemic first struck in 2020, QUT Professor Lidia Morawska knew air transmission was a major factor in the spread of Covid-19, but the World Health Organisation refused to hear her warnings. "What the WHO was doing was spreading misinformation," ...
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