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Supporting part-time and online learners is key to reducing university dropout rates

  • Written by: Tim Pitman, Researcher in Higher Education Policy, Curtin University
imageAttrition rates are high for part-time and online students, but it's important we keep providing these modes of study.Shutterstock

The most recent statistics show first-year attrition rates in Australian universities are at 15%. This has caused the Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, to say universities “need to be taking...

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Tourists are stuck at the airport, but erupting Mt Agung has a deeper significance for the Balinese

  • Written by: Graeme MacRae, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Massey University
imageMount Agung began erupting last week, sending ash columns two kilometres high. AAP/NEWZULU/Kévin Bouvet, CC BY-ND

According to international media coverage, the main problem with Gunung Agung’s eruption is that the airport is closed and tourists cannot get in or out.

The people of East Bali are largely invisible in these...

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Queensland Liberals and Nationals have long had an uneasy cohabitation, and now should consider divorce

  • Written by: Gregory Melleuish, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong

There can be no doubt that in matters political Queensland is different from the rest of Australia.

It is the only state that has a single house of parliament. It is the only state that has a single council for its capital city. It is the only state in which the Country (and later National) Party has been the dominant force on the non-Labor side...

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How school has been used to control sovereignty and self-determination for Indigenous peoples

  • Written by: David McCallum, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University
imageMission schools were originally set up to protect Indigenous populations from white massacres and other violence related to colonialism. John T. Collins/State Library of Victoria, CC BY

Indigenous Australians have been denied self-determination for decades. This has impacted their ability to influence education and other policies at national and...

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  1. Permission to laugh? Humour without risk of danger and offence would be an emaciated thing
  2. Blind in the mind: why some people can't see pictures in their imagination
  3. Sustainable re-use and recycling work for heritage buildings and places too
  4. Governments haven't always shirked responsibility for our low wages
  5. World-first continental acoustic observatory will listen to the sounds of Australia
  6. Labor's dark vision would bring $164 billion tax hit over decade: Morrison
  7. Government questions whether Dastyari fit to be a senator, in new row over Chinese donor
  8. How we found 112 'recovery reefs' dotted through the Great Barrier Reef
  9. Henry Reynolds: Triple J did the right thing, we need a new Australia Day
  10. Marriage bill clears Senate – now for the lower house
  11. Want to better understand Victoria's assisted dying laws? These five articles will help
  12. How 'brand you' came to be
  13. Withdrawing funding for hospitals' mistakes probably won't lead to better patient care
  14. Don Burke story reveals the pernicious culture of men protecting each other in the media
  15. The 2017 ARIA Awards are still off-key when it comes to gender
  16. Comic explainer: what is lone-actor terrorism?
  17. Why Victoria should rethink the abolition of defensive homicide
  18. Three charts on: poorer Australians bearing the brunt of rising housing costs
  19. What goes on inside a medically supervised injection facility?
  20. Indigenous cultural appropriation: what not to do
  21. Three new reports add clarity to Australia's space sector, a 'crowded and valuable high ground'
  22. Curious Kids: How do x-rays see inside you?
  23. Want to solve our STEM skills problem? Bring in the professionals
  24. A fresh start for climate change mitigation in New Zealand
  25. Explainer: why we shouldn't be so quick to trust energy modelling
  26. Heritage building preservation vs sustainability? Conflict isn't inevitable
  27. Here's how to keep up with the latest on Mt Agung, the Bali volcano
  28. Turnbull talks with rebel National on banks
  29. Australia's record on racial equality under the microscope
  30. The Queensland election outcome is a death knell for Adani's coal mine
  31. Starting next year, universities have to prove their research has real-world impact
  32. All hail new weather radar technology, which can spot hailstones lurking in thunderstorms
  33. In Bangarra's Ones Country, new voices show the many faces of Indigenous Australia
  34. No Don Burke, there is no link between autism and harassing behaviour
  35. Labor is right to block 'religious freedom' amendments to protect same-sex marriage bill
  36. Classifying 'national types of beauty': from cigarette cards to Miss Universe
  37. Low-income earners are more likely to die early from preventable diseases
  38. The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past
  39. Universities are failing their students through poor feedback practices
  40. The economics of ridiculously expensive art
  41. 'I am not buying things': why some people see 'dumpster diving' as the ethical way to eat
  42. How Filipino artists are responding to President Duterte and the 'War on Drugs'
  43. Australian cities and their metropolitan plans still seem to be parallel universes
  44. Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe
  45. Turnbull backed against the wall by rebel Nationals on bank inquiry
  46. We don't need to change how we subsidise 'breakthrough' cancer treatments
  47. Sexual Harassment, Sexual Politics and the Gatekeeper Millstone
  48. Despite what politicians and the media say, freedom of speech is alive and well on campus
  49. 'Loot boxes' and pay-to-win features in digital games look a lot like gambling
  50. We need robots that can improvise, but it's not easy to teach them right from wrong

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