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Uni of Canberra to review controversial 'fast-track' professor program
The University of Canberra will have an independent review into its fast-tracked program for early career researchers, amid reports of overwork and exploitation
- by Sally Pryor
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Lunch with ANU vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt
Nobel prizewinner, winemaker, vice-chancellor ... ANU's controversial Brian Schmidt on why he should have said no immediately to the Ramsay Centre's proposal.
- by Jessica Irvine
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University of New South Wales
'Beyond the ATAR': uni to admit top 1000 kids from disadvantaged schools
UNSW to offer places to top students at the state's 350 most disadvantaged schools, regardless of their ATAR
- by Jordan Baker
Private schools
Yale boots student whose family allegedly paid $1.6m entry bribe
The Ivy League university is the first school implicated in the US college admissions bribery scandal to publicly take this action as a result of the allegations.
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Foreign influence showdown as universities decline to register China-funded Confucius Institutes
None of the controversial education centres has signed up to the scheme, creating an early test for the government.
- by Fergus Hunter
Science
'A role model for all of us': retired professor first woman to receive top mathematics prize
Karen Uhlenbeck is most known for her 1980s work on the "calculus of variations", which helps explain how geometric objects such as soap films and soap bubbles achieve shapes that minimise energy.
- by Mary Huber
Ramsay Centre
'Everything Tarrant identifies...is true': Ramsay Centre under fire for speakers
The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation has come under fire over its 2019 lecture series speakers.
- by Pallavi Singhal
University
University of Queensland college to admit women for first time
After 107 years the University of Queensland's King's College has in 2019 decided to allow women students to become members and use their accommodation from next year.
- by Tony Moore
USA
Hard lessons: Admissions scandal highlights divide over class in US
"It really infuriates me right now. These people jumped ahead in line of my kid, I mean, literally my kid, this year."
- by Michelle Smith and Deepti Hajela
USA
From 'master coach' to bribery probe: A college consultant who went off the rails
"I think my first reaction was... 'So that's what he was up to'," said one person who worked with the man at the centre of a massive US college admissions fraud scheme.
- by Nick Anderson
USA
Actress Felicity Huffman awoke to FBI agents with guns drawn at her LA home
The reputations of Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin have been shattered following their arrest as part of a $35.2 million college admissions fraud scheme.
- by Richard Winton