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New USP campus for Solomon Islands Audio
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Solomon Islands is getting a new campus to house an expansion of the University of the South Pacific.
Topics: university-and-further-education, access-to-education, pacific, solomon-islands
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Facebook racial vilification case against university students thrown out
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A judge throws out a case against three Queensland University of Technology students who were accused of racially vilifying an Indigenous woman in 2013.
Topics: courts-and-trials, discrimination, federal-parliament, race-relations, university-and-further-education, brisbane-4000
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Adelaide bushwalkers enlisted to help koala research
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South Australians are urged to help researchers count the koala population, a marsupial which is abundant in the Adelaide Hills but declared a vulnerable species nationally.
Topics: animals, human-interest, university-and-further-education, adelaide-5000, sa
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'Diversity as strength': Indigenous man Tasmania's new Rhodes Scholar
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Bede Jones, a Palawa man from Tasmania, hopes being awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University will encourage others to leverage their differences and aim high.
Topics: aboriginal, university-and-further-education, awards-and-prizes, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, tas
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Ice use in rural Australia double that of metro areas, drug report shows
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An Australian study reveals people using methamphetamines in rural areas tend to be employed, unlike their city counterparts.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, university-and-further-education, unemployment, community-and-society, youth, orange-2800, lismore-2480, kingaroy-4610, sydney-2000
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Why cramming for exams the night before rarely works Opinion
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An intense night of study won't help you remember information in the long-term, and the stress of revising under pressure will likely impact on your sleep and thus your exam performance.
Topics: sleep, stress, anxiety, education, university-and-further-education, health, australia
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University Western Sydney launches Pasifika program for staff and students Audio
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A university in Sydney is launching a program to connect staff and students with the Pasifika community in Australia and the Oceania region.
Topics: education-industry, university-and-further-education, pacific, university-of-western-sydney-2560, australia
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From building in Coffs Harbour to humanitarian work in Ukraine conflict zone
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Eight years after starting his first degree at the age of 45, Jeff Barnard has travelled to Dominica, Indonesia and Ukraine to work as a humanitarian responder.
Topics: university-and-further-education, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, valla-beach-2448, ukraine
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Street art set to transform regional Queensland uni campus
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A university professor takes a bold approach and uses street art to make a regional Queensland campus an attraction for grey nomads.
Topics: street-art, visual-art, art-and-design, university-and-further-education, regional, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: street-art, visual-art, art-and-design, university-and-further-education, regional, regional-development, rockhampton-4700
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CQ University artist in residence Bill Gannon image
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Street art at CQ University Rockhampton image
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Topics: street-art, visual-art, art-and-design, university-and-further-education, regional, regional-development, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: street-art, visual-art, art-and-design, university-and-further-education, regional, regional-development, rockhampton-4700
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Innovation drives education partnership
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Rockhampton could become the first regional area in Australia to provide a study ground for Korean agricultural students.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, local-government, rockhampton-4700, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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Topics: science-and-technology, university-and-further-education, women, cairns-4870
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Female drone pilots push for more women employed in science and technology
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Scientist, lecturer and drone pilot, Dr Karen Joyce is on a mission to attract more women to the fields of science and technology.
Topics: science-and-technology, women, university-and-further-education, cairns-4870
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Queensland ag college board vacancies 'not good enough'
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The Queensland Opposition calls for transparency on the management of the state's agricultural colleges.
Topics: rural, university-and-further-education, longreach-4730
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Topics: computers-and-technology, education-industry, university-and-further-education, travel-and-tourism, cairns-4870
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Virtual reality the latest tool attracting international students to Queensland
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Virtual reality tours of Queensland's far north are being offered to international students in a bid to entice them to study in the region.
Topics: computers-and-technology, education-industry, university-and-further-education, travel-and-tourism, cairns-4870, japan, germany, united-kingdom, spain, italy
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Hollywood-style makeup wounds help paramedic training, study finds
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Paramedic students treating patients with Hollywood-style fake wounds and blood have been found to get the job done faster, research finds.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, university-and-further-education, perth-6000
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(WARNING: Simulated wounds) Make-up artists creating fake wounds for paramedic students Video
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Edith Cowan University has started using make-up artists to create realistic wounds for paramedic students' training.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, health, medical-procedures, edith-cowan-university-6018
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USP deregistering private students for non-payment of tuition Audio
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The University of the South Pacific in Fiji has announced that it is deregistering private students who have failed to pay their tuition fees.
Topics: education-industry, university-and-further-education, pacific, fiji
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Sydney academics take research to the pub
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Academics have taken to pubs around Sydney in a bid to better connect world class research with modern culture.
Topics: science, research, university-and-further-education, sydney-2000
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Universities continue push for teaching enrolments as grads struggle to find work
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Universities are continuing to spruik a career in teaching to prospective students despite concerns there is a glut of graduates on the market.
Topics: university-and-further-education, teachers, australia
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