Campus Review news editor Patrick Avenell was dismayed to see his local bus displaying an advertisement for his alma mater, Australian National University, the top-ranked university in Australia. He thought the ad, and its placement on a humble people-carrier, cheapened the university's ...
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He's been on the up and up for a while. First, he became a senior correspondent on The Daily Show on Comedy Central in the United States. Then, he joined the cast of the Warner Bros film Crazy Rich Asians. ...
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You probably wouldn't follow your careers advisor on Snapchat, but you might friend ENID Network. Sydney University graduates Nina Khoury (commerce and law) and Adriana Stefanatos (commerce) created the network: an all-female careers advice and networking platform for high school ...
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“I went to university and I hated it.” That phrase sums up the no-holds-barred approach of Dr Catherine Ball when she spoke at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology last week. Ball is chief ...
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January is a quiet and relaxing time for students transitioning from the hectic nerves of high schools' final days to the exciting dawn of a new academic experience at university. As each sunny day passes, however, anxious anticipation starts taking ...
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“A very talented group of students has spent the past four months developing their designs and fabricating architectural models that reflect, both philosophically and materially, on the political, social and environmental role of architecture.” That's the message from professor Michael ...
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While in Beijing for the 2016 Australia Week in China, the University of New South Wales announced a new $100 science and technology incubator will be built at the school's Kensington campus. Of this funding, $30 million will come from ...
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Professor Peter van Onselen's question is so simple, it's only one word long: Seriously? pic.twitter.com/Wg9UJkFCQk — Peter van Onselen (@vanOnselenP) March 29, 2016 The University of Western Australia politics professor, federal Senate expert, columnist for The Australian, Sky News presenter ...
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The first thing you need to understand is that Go is a much more complicated game than chess. More than 2500 years old and borne out of classical Chinese antiquity, Go quickly spread through Japan and Korea, and then other ...
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Researchers from the University of Queensland have partnered with academics from the University of North Carolina in the US and Cardiff University in the UK to develop a smartphone app to survey women about postpartum depression (PPD, also knows as ...
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