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Top Australian university joins MIT in providing tuition-free scholarships globally

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia is offering Foundation Academic Scholarships to support international students with their tuition fees. Recently, universities around the world have announced various tuition fee benefits for international students, with the University of Texas and MIT in the United States among the institutions offering such support. These universities are providing financial assistance to help alleviate …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 30 years on

ABC

Back in 1994, it was a pretty wild pitch for a movie: a troupe of drag queens road tripping across the Australian outback, in a lavender bus named Priscilla. But The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, put the Australian film industry on the global map, and these days it's become an icon of Australian cinema. This event was …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Misinformation about the 1967 referendum is spreading again. Here's why the Indigenous 'flora and fauna' act is a myth

ABC

CheckMate, a collaboration between RMIT ABC Fact Check and RMIT FactLab, is a weekly newsletter that recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation. In a number of recent posts shared to social media, users have claimed that Indigenous people were governed — prior to the 1967 referendum — under a "flora and fauna act". But as …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Rapid bushfire detection was promised after the Black Summer fires. It may have hit a roadblock

ABC

In late 2019, as bushfires lit up Australia's east coast, Simon Jones received an urgent call from the Victorian Country Fire Authority. Professor Jones, who's not involved with Fire Shield, said the technology was "nowhere near" good enough at the moment. In June this year, Minderoo The global competition has two categories: Teams will have one minute to accurately detect …

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1 year, 11 months ago

RMIT international study finds nine in 10 adults admit cyberbullying

ABC

New research suggests that nine in ten adults have committed an act of cyberbullying. Key points: A study has found that 94 per cent of its participants engaged in cyberbullying The research focused on samples from overseas, with plans to further the study in Australia It is hoped the findings will help identify cyberbullies and prevent toxic online behaviour Led …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Some politicians and pundits claim the Voice to Parliament would be a 'third chamber'. Five constitutional law experts weigh in

ABC

CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. CheckMate September 23, 2022 This week, we ask constitutional experts about suggestions that the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament would constitute a "third chamber of parliament". …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Worse than COVID? Medical experts weigh in on NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet's 'more severe' flu claim

ABC

CheckMate is a weekly newsletter from RMIT FactLab which recaps the latest in the world of fact checking and misinformation, drawing on the work of FactLab and its sister organisation, RMIT ABC Fact Check. Making an assessment on the NSW Premier's claim about the flu currently being "more severe" than COVD-19 is complicated, experts say. According to Paul Glasziou, the …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Electronic skin can sense touch, pain just like human skin

The Hindu

Researchers at RMIT University have developed electronic skin that can sense pain just like real skin. “Our artificial skin reacts instantly when pressure, heat or cold reach a painful threshold,” Madhu Bhaskaran, Professor at RMIT University, said. “It’s a critical step forward in the future development of the sophisticated feedback systems that we need to deliver truly smart prosthetics and …

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4 years, 4 months ago

University underpayment so rampant tutors 'instructed to do a poor job' to avoid unpaid hours, former staff say

ABC

Tutors at some of Australia's sandstone universities are being told to do a "poor job" and "skim read" student essays to meet impossible marking pay rates, as an ABC investigation reveals at least 10 tertiary institutions are involved in an underpayment scandal. Key points: Ten Australian universities are now facing the issue of worker underpayment RMIT has been taken to …

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