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Newly-released parliamentary research recorded a 66% spike in international student enrolments over the past decade, throwing into sharp relief the dire consequences of missing international students in 2021.
The Victorian government has said it won’t accept its university’s proposal to pay for quarantine for returning international students, and plans in other states have also stalled.
“I think the worst-case scenario is what we are now facing,” Victoria University researcher Dr Peter Hurley told The Saturday Paper.
Ever since the pandemic gutted higher education last year, the country’s university sector has held out hope that at least some students would return in 2021.
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Strenuous efforts to prevent and treat malaria in recent decades have brought great benefits, particularly against disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum in countries in Africa and the Americas. But malaria caused by its stealthier and more resilient cousin ,
P. vivax, now needs to be confronted with high priority, say Lorenz von Seidlein and Nicholas White of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand in a Perspective. The piece introduces a Collection on the prevention and treatment of
P. vivax malaria in the open access journal
PLOS Medicine, published ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25th.
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Charles Darwin University (CDU) has ranked in the top 100 universities in the world in six areas of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
The 2021 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings place Charles Darwin University in the top 100 universities in the world in six areas of sustainable development
Gender equality is one of those goals, and CDU’s actions and contributions saw it jump from 24th in 2020 to fourth this year.
Charles Darwin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman AO said he was delighted with the university’s performance in this category.