Australians have become less trusting of how governments and companies use their private data following two years of using check-in apps during the Covid-19 pandemic. New analysis from the Australian National University shows people’s trust in major institutions to maintain data privacy ...
More »The arts/science schism appears to be narrowing in the 2022 world university rankings for arts and humanities
Three Australian universities placed in the top 100 of The World University Ranking 2022 by subject: arts and humanities, but the bigger story is how long-established science and engineering behemoths of the sector are also registering strongly in the arts ...
More »Multiple US universities on alert after bomb threats force evacuations
Multiple universities across the US faced bomb threats in the past week, including four Ivy league schools. Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities all alerted students to the threat on Sunday (November 7 AEDT) and evacuated several campuses. Police deemed the ...
More »London School of Economics claims first carbon neutral status in the UK, but debate remains
The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) has been independently verified as the UK’s first carbon neutral university, but debate persists over whether student travel emissions should remain optional to report. Global certification organisation BSI verified the school’s ...
More »Study finds 28m more years of life lost during 2020 pandemic
Over 28 million more years of life were lost in 31 countries last year than expected, based on a study shedding light on the impact of the pandemic. International researchers looked at 37 upper middle and high income countries or ...
More »Cleo Smith found in Carnarvon house, criminologists say rescue came against all odds, psychologists say she must be ‘watched carefully’
The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...
More »While Australia registers a strong performance, China and the pandemic are the big talking points: World Reputation Rankings 2021
The University of Melbourne has made it into the top 50 universities for the Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings 2021, being Australia’s sole representative at number 46. Four other Australian universities ranked within the top 200, with Australian ...
More »New female empowerment report shows Australia is coming up short
Insurance company William Russell has just released a report on the most empowering countries for females to live and work, with Australia breaking the top 10 in only one of the key indicators: the proportion of women who hold a ...
More »Monash legal expert explains why ‘no jab, no entry’ mandates are not discriminatory
A Monash University expert in discrimination law and tort law has said that so-called “no jab, no entry” policies do not constitute discrimination, despite some claiming the contrary. Liam Elphick, an associate lecturer in the faculty of law at Monash, ...
More »Australian unis shine again in 2022 QS rankings of best universities for graduate employment
Global higher education experts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, what the company calls “their annual deep dive into the relationship between university choice and graduate employment outcomes". QS states that the rankings “offer a ...
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