A new RMIT vocational course aims to educate students to better recognise and respond adequately to victim-survivors of sexual violence and harm. The Course in Recognising and Responding to Sexual Violence is targeted at practitioners, support workers, service users and ...
More »RMIT settles in ‘payment dispute’, set to pay casual staff back $10 million in underpayments
Another horror week for the university sector ends with RMIT admitting underpaying thousands of casual staff members and agreeing to pay back approximately $10 million. This week has seen Monash university fight further accusations of wage theft and Federation University ...
More »RMIT research shows thermal imaging technique may help provide better wound care
New research by RMIT and Bolton Clarke has found a way of predicting whether a wound needs extra management, offering an early alert system for the most chronic wounds. Published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the study shows that analysis of thermal images ...
More »Learning from post-disaster projects for post-pandemic universities
The higher education sector was significantly hit by the pandemic. International borders closed down and international student enrolment dropped. Universities’ revenues fell short of budgets and they went into contraction. COVID restrictions and lockdowns also meant that business as usual ...
More »How technology is facilitating marketing growth
With its strong contributions to brand awareness and overall consumer uptake, marketing has evolved into a powerhouse industry. The department is no longer on the fringe of the office, and the work is, more often than not, kept in-house. As ...
More »Mentors help beat discrimination
A pilot work experience scheme for gay and lesbian students has shown promise and may be extended next year. A new program known as Pride Mentoring is successfully pairing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students at RMIT University with ...
More »Cream to treat skin cancer
Scientists at Melbourne’s RMIT University have designed a new chemical that targets and treats melanoma cells. In a biomedical engineering advance that could lead to more treatment options for skin cancer sufferers, researchers have designed a peptide that acts like ...
More »Big Bang theory cools down
A group of theoretical physicists has poured water on current theories on the creation of the universe and embraced quantum graphity. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University suggest our universe began not as a big bang but ...
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