Career-related motivations are among the most important factors in Australian students’ decision to undertake higher education. This means universities must demonstrate their graduates’ ability to find work when seeking to recruit students in an increasingly competitive tertiary education marketplace. Our research shows double degrees (students study for two degrees at once) can greatly improve new graduates’ prospects […] … learn more→

Aristotle called humans “the social animal,” and people have recognized for centuries that young people need to be in communities to develop into healthy adults. The ongoing pandemic has caused concern about the effects of isolation on children and teenagers’ social and psychological growth. But while young people today may not be able to gather in […] … learn more→

There has been much criticism of the report recently published by the UK government’s Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities, chaired by Tony Sewell. Pundits have deplored its denial of institutional racism in Britain. A recent act of student resistance highlights how flawed the report is, and how racism affects schooling. In March, hundreds of pupils at […] … learn more→

Long considered in France as an exception, bilingualism, or more broadly the recurrent use of two or more languages ​​on a daily basis, is more and more essential in the daily life of our society. According to psycholinguist François Grosjean , half of the world’s population is considered bilingual. For more than 20 years, UNESCO has been working […] … learn more→

Friendships that bridge across social class – “cross-class friendships” – can minimize middle school academic achievement differences that are based on the level of parents’ education, according to research from the UCLA School Diversity Project. As scholars of adolescent development, we examined academic achievement differences among 4,288 middle school students in California based on their parents’ education level. […] … learn more→

We are witnessing the emergence of a new generation of disinformation that is upsetting our benchmarks. Indeed, concern over the growing popularity of deepfakes , or malicious hyper-trick, has led author and synthetic media consultant, Nina Schick, to announce an imminent infocalypse . Hyperchip are audio and video recordings of real people speaking and performing things they have never said […] … learn more→

Due to the continuous growth of business needs, entrepreneurs are increasingly investing in advanced IT solutions. Properly selected software can perform many functions that contribute to the competitiveness of the organisation and the efficiency of management. Developing business applications can facilitate access to information and streamline teamwork, and even minimise business costs. What is business […] … learn more→

A spectre is haunting arts and humanities scholarship: the consequences of open access. Policy decisions are being taken now, but within the next three to four years, these missteps are likely to have profoundly harmed entire disciplines and possibly wiped out some of our most cherished learned societies. Given the huge pressures faced by academics […] … learn more→

People may think of comics and science as worlds apart, but they have been cross-pollinating each other in more than ways than one. Many classic comic book characters are inspired by biology such as Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Poison Ivy. And they can act as educational tools to gain some fun facts about the natural world. […] … learn more→

Readers expect academic writers to know what they are talking about. We meet that expectation by grounding our writing in good scholarship – and making it sound authoritative. Authoritative. You can see the words author and authority contained within authoritative – and this is no accident as the threesome have the same origins. An authority is a […] … learn more→