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With graduation season approaching, academics and students will soon don caps and sweeping gowns. The contrast between the gravity of academic rank and odd costumery can be startling; you respect a Dean but find it hard to reconcile that with – despite ...

In his LinkedIn profile photo, Weijing Wang resembles a typical businessman. He wears a fitted navy suit, a starched white shirt and a blue striped tie. He has his hands clasped in the typical head shot manner. His eyes are ...

Asian rankings darlings the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University are suffering internal tumult after 10 professors openly criticised them. An article published in Singaporean newspaper Today detailed how several high profile academics in non-STEM fields left ...

For a university publishing house, it was shocking. On Wednesday, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) chief executive Louise Adler resigned after the university announced it would change its focus from commercial to academic publishing. She was hastily followed out by Chairman Laurie ...

People may as well have sung 'Unhappy Anniversary' to US President Trump last Sunday night. January 20 marked two years since he assumed office, and he is in the trenches. He presided over the longest government shutdown ever and suffered a humiliating defeat ...

'Finish what you start' is a widely revered tenet of neoliberal psychology, yet a new study by La Trobe University flips it on its side. Researchers at the university's Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research have found that those who complete ...

National newspaper The Australian does not have an internship program. Nonetheless, a few years ago, a young woman interned there, by virtue of the fact that she was a company bigwig's daughter. This woman is now a prominent journalist at a different ...

Romantic love won't be celebrated this year at the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city. To much chagrin, the university – one of the nation's best – has issued a 'ban' on Valentine's Day. In its place, Vice ...

As summer peaks, so does the incidence of music festivals; a rite of passage for many young Australians. Yet increasingly, these frivolous events are tinged with tragedy. Over the weekend, 19 year-old Alex Ross-King died at FOMO Festival – the fifth ...

In 2007 James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, said that black people are genetically inferior. In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, he voiced that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" as "all our social policies are based ...