The USyd Business School has stopped using the data intensive assessment program Cadmus after a decision made by the eTools committee in Semester 2 last year.
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A new report by The Australia Institute reveals that last year, Australian universities and research institutions spent over $322 million on journal subscriptions and a total of $1 billion on academic publishers.
In a joint statement through the Australian Tertiary Education Network on Disability (ATEND), ten advocacy and representative groups requested an “immediate retraction of ableist language used in the Accord and a recalculation of the target participation rate for people with disability to be inclusive of all people.”
Students Against War (S.A.W.) and Stop War on Palestine organised a snap rally on Thursday 4 April at the Sydney office of Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in response to the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza, Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom. Zomi was amongst seven World Central Kitchen workers killed in their convoy by an Israeli military air strike, announced on April 2.
In an open letter, civil rights organisations have called for the government to repeal “anti-democratic” NSW anti-protest laws, or failing that, introduce “a community consultation component into the statutory review of the 2022 amendments.”
The rally centred the fight for trans liberation, stating that trans visibility requires political action.
The Court acknowledged that “the catastrophic living conditions of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have deteriorated further”, specifically citing the “prolonged and widespread deprivation of food and other basic necessities.”
The rally was organised by activist groups Students Against War and UTS Staff for Palestine, and called for USyd and UTS to cut their ties with Israel and arms manufacturers.
On Easter Sunday, Palestine Action Group’s twenty-fifth straight protest continued in Hyde Park as Christians in Palestine face “unprecedented restrictions”.…
On March 25, the editors of Noise, UNSW’s independent student publication established earlier this month, received a “cease and desist” email from Arc @ UNSW’s Director of Marketing & Experience, Mitchell McBurnie.