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STEM Degrees Just Became Cheaper In Australia, Humanities Double In Price
On Friday the Australian government will announce a complete overhaul of university degree pricing. While some courses will decrease, others will see a significant jump. Humanities will be hit hardest with a 113 per cent increase. According to The Guardian, education minister Dan Tehan will make this announcement to the National Press Club later today.…
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Australia’s Smartest Student Engineers Just Won A University Autonomous Robotics Competition
On Tuesday at UNSW, 22 teams from universities around Australia and New Zealand gathered to pit purpose-built robots against each other in a battle of intelligent design. A crowd gathered in the auditorium where two intricate looking obstacle courses had been set up for the robots to navigate, cheering whenever one team’s creation pulled off…
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Harvard Is Tracking Student Attendance With Secret Cameras
Everyone has skipped the occasional class here and there, but Harvard University is taking it seriously. It has started tracking the attendance of its students using secret cameras — and it didn’t tell them it was doing so.
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Victorian Uni Students Are Hosting A 24-Hour App-Building Hackathon
Students from Monash Uni and the University of Melbourne’s IT clubs are collaborating on UNIHACK, a 24-hour app building challenge sponsored by some pretty big tech companies. The idea is simple: turn up with your team, cram 24 hours of coding and development, and produce a winning, working app.