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Online lectures mean fewer students are turning up – does it matter?

  • Written by: Natalie Skead, Professor, Dean of Law School, University of Western Australia
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In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class had been scheduled to start.

This is not an isolated incident. Anecdotally, lecture and tutorial attendance has been declining steadily in Australian universities and faculties for many years.

Declining...

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People with cognitive disability shouldn't be in prison because they're 'unfit to plead'. There are alternatives

  • Written by: Bernadette McSherry, Foundation Director, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne
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In 2018, the Victorian Ombudsman, Deborah Glass, delivered a report about “the saddest case” she had ever seen.

A 39-year-old woman with a developmental disorder had been locked in her prison cell for up to 23 hours a day for more than 18 months. The woman had been charged with breaching an intervention order (a charge...

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Coronavirus quarantine could spark an online learning boom

  • Written by: Carlo Perrotta, Senior lecturer, Monash University

The spread of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 is a public health emergency with economic and social ramifications in China and across the world. While the impacts on business are well documented, education is also facing the largest disruption in recent memory.

Institutions around the world are responding to travel bans and quarantines...

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Electricity market transforming apace but security a worry: Energy Security Board

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The transformation of the national electricity market has “progressed at a remarkable pace and scale” over the last year as it moves towards renewables, but security is a critical issue, according to the Energy Security Board.

In its latest report on “The Health of the National Electricity Market”, released Monday, the board...

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  6. Australia, we need to talk about who governs our city-states
  7. who would win in a fight between the Black Mamba and the Inland Taipan?
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  10. scarlet ribbons – the huge history of big hair bows
  11. Labor is right to talk about well-being, but it depends on where you live
  12. Teen use of cannabis has dropped in New Zealand, but legalisation could make access easier
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  14. Phil Honeywood on the coronavirus challenge for universities
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  18. Australian unis may need to cut staff and research if government extends coronavirus travel ban
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