In the second episode of APN Educational Media's new Week in Review podcast, now titled Talking Eds, new editor Patrick Avenell is joined by James Wells from Education Review and Campus Review and Loren Smith from Early Learning Review to dissect ...
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APN Educational Media is today debuting its new, as yet untitled, weekly review podcast. The new show will look at the nurturing and education of people from preschool age (EarlyLearningReview.com.au), through primary and high school (EducationReview.com.au) and into tertiary education (CampusReview.com.au). The ...
More »Privacy fears as governments push for ‘back doors’ into encrypted data
Mandatory 'back doors' into secure, encrypted data could compromise university research worldwide, a cybersecurity expert has warned. US and UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been pushing for all encrypted data to have a back door that government can ...
More »Labour, environment standards in TPP mean progress: law scholar
The fact that environmental standards are included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership at all is progress, a law expert has said. The TPP is a 12-country trade agreement with the stated goal of supporting economic growth, creating more jobs and raising ...
More »Medical marijuana is already legal: researcher
Medical cannabis is already legal in Australia and has been for a while, a researcher from the University of Sydney has said. Clinical associate professor Nick Lintzeris, from USYD’s Lambert Initiative for research into cannabis-based therapeutics, said there is great ...
More »Focus defence closer to home: policy expert
An Australian National University defence policy expert is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reconfigure national defence priorities closer to home. Dr John Blaxland, senior fellow at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said what happens in the immediate ...
More »Arts and humanities called key to getting jobs
Arts and humanities degrees are more valuable for getting graduates jobs than purely technical degrees, a humanities advocacy group has said. Statistics from Graduate Careers Australia show that rates of graduate employment have been steadily declining in recent years – decreasing ...
More »ANU announces $53m student residence
The Australian National University has unveiled its plans for a $53 million student residential building. ANU students influenced the design of the new building, which will house an extra 500 students on campus from 2017. Chris Grange, executive director of administration ...
More »Symposium to show education is the way
Indigenous education leaders from around Australia will gather at the University of the Sunshine Coast for the 9th annual Indigenous Education Symposium on Saturday 29 August. The theme of this year’s symposium ‘education is the way’ will explore ways to ...
More »Multimillion-dollar gift for mental health research
Mental health researchers at Monash University will benefit from a new multimillion-dollar gift. Monash economics graduate and stockbroker David Winston Turner has donated $5.2 million – the largest philanthropic gift the university has received. The gift, to be distributed over ...
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