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Peter Mellow
February 2, 2016 4:33 PM
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Troubled times call for strong leaders – so with tough challenges ahead, higher education needs to be looking forward
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Peter Mellow
February 28, 1:30 AM
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Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser says universities should get rid of group assignments, branding them ‘unfair’.
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Peter Mellow
February 15, 5:06 PM
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Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.
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from Hospitals and Healthcare
January 29, 6:40 PM
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Data from the country's tertiary admissions centres shows health courses are again the most popular area of study for university students in 2026.
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Peter Mellow
January 26, 6:47 PM
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An English teacher taught me three simple rules. In the age of fake news, they have served me well.
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Peter Mellow
December 14, 2025 6:43 PM
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For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
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November 23, 2025 5:51 PM
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A lack of gender diversity in maths means technologies such as AI and quantum computing are mainly designed by – and for – men.
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November 1, 2025 12:22 PM
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Higher education can—and should—fight the Trump administration, but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close.
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Peter Mellow
October 31, 2025 1:04 AM
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Gisborne Girls’ High School principal Jan Kumar will retire at the year’s end after starting her career there teaching science in 1987. Kumar says sh
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October 22, 2025 5:31 PM
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Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says, ‘if you don’t think there are challenges in university governance, you’ve been living under a rock’.
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Peter Mellow
October 20, 2025 6:06 PM
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At Arizona State University, residents pay about $500,000 in entrance fees to live on campus and take classes alongside undergraduates.
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October 14, 2025 6:00 PM
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A student threatened to come to the teacher’s house and rape her. He was not suspended.
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October 6, 2025 5:43 PM
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A new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind.
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Peter Mellow
March 16, 6:04 PM
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Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort
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Peter Mellow
February 18, 8:40 PM
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What is happening with racism on Australian campuses? And what can be done to fix it?
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Peter Mellow
February 3, 8:22 PM
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The question is not whether Islam belongs in Australia. It’s how religious authority is situated in a society that values freedom, accountability and civic trust.
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from AI in Education #AIinED
January 29, 6:20 PM
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Alpha School, which purports to teach children academics using AI for two hours a day, has got the support of the Trump administration, but leaves some education experts and parents unimpressed.
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Peter Mellow
January 6, 4:18 PM
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Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
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December 2, 2025 5:01 PM
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Boarding schools in Australia are diverse, and not like Hogwarts or other caricatures.
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November 11, 2025 4:28 PM
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People without university-educated parents are 36% likely to enrol in degree, compared with 59% of students whose parents are tertiary educated
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Peter Mellow
November 1, 2025 12:21 PM
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The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
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Peter Mellow
October 27, 2025 10:17 PM
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Sorry, Baby and After the Hunt have put graduate research – and its ethical grey areas – on the screen.
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October 20, 2025 6:10 PM
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Once complete, the new UNSW campus will be an education hub for thousands of students and staff, and is expected to provide a much-needed injection to the city's economy.
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October 19, 2025 10:10 PM
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Shutting out China’s best minds will only push them into a homegrown Chinese research ecosystem that is eclipsing American universities.
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Peter Mellow
October 8, 2025 11:04 PM
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Times Higher Eduction ranks university as 37th in the world, with five other Australian schools in top 100
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Peter Mellow
October 4, 2025 7:52 PM
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The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.
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