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Revealed: the great uni entry charade

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University students at their graduation ceremony --- graduates,  higher education, tertiary studies, hecs. Rear view of students in mortar boards and gowns. 
Wednesday 1st October 2003
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Universities are admitting students with ATARs as low as 30 into the state's top tertiary degrees, data reveals.

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A dramatic prison break is caught on camera in Brazil as over 40 inmates tumble out of a hole exploded in an external wall.

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Melbourne musician Karl von Bamberger.

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Zika fear: pregnant travellers warned

A female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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