The First Three Minutes and A Brief History of Time The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics Professor Steven Weinberg (3 May 1933 to 23 July 2021) has passed away. Just several hours before this writer learned of Weinberg’s ...

When times are tough, one of the best coping strategies is to leave the past behind, move out of your current predicament, and focus on the horizon ahead. All of us are trying to look ahead right now. Our ability ...

As the onshore international student market continues to be suppressed by the ever-evolving manifestations of COVID-19, the heady lure of establishing offshore operations in potential growth markets in Asia is inevitably the fare of boardroom discussions in many universities and ...

The years 2020 and 2021 so far have been tough for many. There is no denying that countries and industries have been affected at different levels since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019. For Australia, the impact on international ...

As we look to a post-COVID era and a recalibration of teaching and learning to our new world order, we have to consider the way in which we describe our educational activities and also how we adjust expectations and learning norms.

July 5 2021 was the 117th birthday of the great scientist Ernst Mayr (5 July 1904 to 3 February 2005). Ernst Mayr can be described among others as an evolutionary biologist, taxonomist, ornithologist, science educator and historian, and a leading ...

The outlook for international student recruitment for onshore delivery in 2021 is indeed looking bleak.  The current expectation is for another tight trimester 3 (from September 2021) followed by an optimistic upturn in 2022. In an article including data from ...

We all know things are tough Bushfires, floods, pandemic, aged care, wars and military tensions, racism and sexism all clamour for our attention, and 2020 saw plenty of this. These are naturally urgent matters that require attention and our governments ...

Leading an Australian university just got even more difficult. Minister Alan Tudge clarified in his UA conference speech what many feared. There is no new public funding for the sector.  He restated that research needs to shift from being valued because ...

Can the theory, postulate or supposition that the asteroid/comet/bolide collision be classified as a scientific hypothesis?