An Aussie university student has had her first day in court waging a David and Goliath battle against the government over climate change. Melbourne student Katta O’Donnell was inspired to take legal action against the government during a La Trobe university lecture about the ...
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A new report from Western Union Business Solutions following the COVID-19 disruption highlights how universities can evolve their approach to better meet the needs of a new generation of students, writes Hayden Scown With travel off the cards for the ...
More »Education research should be held to medicine’s standards: academics
“How can it be ethical to teach a program in schools that has not been rigorously evaluated?” This is one of the questions two academics posed as they argued that education research should be held to a higher standard, closer ...
More »Reputation ranking: world’s academics weigh up Aussie unis
The world’s universities have been weighed up by academics and they’ve again put six Australian institutions in the top 100. Times Higher Education (THE) has released the 2020 edition of its World Reputation Rankings, which canvasses the opinions of the ...
More »On again? SA uni merger part of election promise
South Australia’s opposition leader has promised to drive a merger between the states' universities if the Labor party wins the next state election. In a Facebook post, Peter Malinauskas said South Australia was the only mainland state without a university ...
More »Study finds Asian-Australians ‘trusted’ yet still highly discriminated against
A survey conducted by the Australian National University (ANU) has found that four in five Asian-Australians have experienced instances of discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ANU survey, which involved 3000 people, found that 84.5 per cent of Asian-Australians reported ...
More »Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Academic found in Iran’s Evin prison
An Australian-British academic who is serving a prison sentence in Iran has been located after her whereabouts became unknown. Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert was recently moved from Iran’s notorious Qarchak prison to an unknown location. Her worried friends and colleagues are ...
More »University subject rankings: Who’s on top?
Australia’s rankings darling, the University of Melbourne, has dominated a series of subject ladders released by Times Higher Education. It was the nation’s best performer in seven of the eleven World University Rankings by subject. UniMelb’s best results were in ...
More »Study finds excellence, not perfectionism, is key to high achievement, social and emotional wellbeing
As Year 12 students across Australia prepare for the culmination of their schooling, a proportion of over-achievers will be setting their expectations high and will likely be fearful about not reaching their perfectionist heights. The perfectionist syndrome led clinical PhD ...
More »Go8 dominates US global uni ranking
The Group of Eight (Go8) has made a clean sweep of the top Australian spots in the latest global university ranking. The 2021 Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report ranks nearly 1,500 top institutions across 86 countries ...
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