A molecular biologist at the University Clinical Research Center in Mali works in a COVID-19 testing lab.
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Is it time for some scientists to turn back to pre-COVID-19 research?
Now that Dan Tehan has steered the package through the parliament, the government and higher education sector will have to live with the consequences.
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Three key policy errors in the legislation mean the Morrison government is unlikely to achieve the stated goals of its package.
Australia’s move to increase fees for some university humanities courses reflects global trends towards market-friendly education that overlook what’s needed for human flourishing. Here, the University of Sydney.
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Demand is high for teachers with expertise in STEM subjects like maths. But students also deserve expert English, history, civics or geography teachers. Maybe your favourite teacher did an arts degree.
A parishioner records an online mass from an empty church in Mabopane, South Africa, during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Doubling the cost of degrees in the humanities and social sciences has a disproportionate impact on women because they account for two-thirds of the students.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison stands next to a photograph of Sir Robert Menzies.
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The implications of the government’s announcement are about more than incentivising the career trajectories of students. They are a direct assault on the premise of universities.
The education minister has outlined reforms to higher education funding aimed at producing ‘job ready graduates’. But his announcements don’t seem completely in line with the data.
A 1620 engraving depicts tobacco being prepared for export from Jamestown, Virginia.
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The ‘tough guy’ is a cultural archetype that political leaders have long adopted. But during crises, Americans tend to look for a different kind of hero.
George and Laura Elmore (left) voting after wining a landmark case ending white-only primaries in South Carolina.
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Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
Photographer Ansel Adams poses on a bluff with his camera.
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A growing chorus of people say the US has never been so politically divided. A Civil War historian reminds readers that there was once a far more divided time.
Two Marines in the Marine Corps’ 5th Division cemetery on Iwo Jima pay their respects to a fallen comrade.
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Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the US. They weren’t songs of anger – but of an abiding belief in the victory of good over evil.
The USS Cairo pulls up to the banks of the Mississippi River in 1862.
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Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne