WA’s biggest university announces new ‘climate emergency’ degree

WA’s biggest university announces new ‘climate emergency’ degree

To the students who put their hands up to be ambassadors for the new qualification,climate change is already personal – and will require new skills to combat.

  • byHolly Thompson

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WA urged to boost student accommodation to ease rental market pressure
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WA urged to boost student accommodation to ease rental market pressure

Students hoping to study at a Perth university are finding it increasingly difficult to find a place to live. But there could be a solution.

  • byHolly Thompson
WA universities lose millions as COVID’s bite continues to be felt

WA universities lose millions as COVID’s bite continues to be felt

All four of Perth’s public universities recorded a financial drop from their 2022 figures,but while two returned a profit,two have fallen millions into the red.

  • byHolly Thompson
Lithium batteries are in hot demand. Can miner Pilbara keep on trucking?

Lithium batteries are in hot demand. Can miner Pilbara keep on trucking?

Lithium,the soft,silvery-white metal at the heart of the clean energy shift,is in hot demand these days. But the companies mining it have endured a tumultuous few years.

  • byNick Toscano
Perth’s biggest uni goes back over its books to probe potential underpayment
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Perth’s biggest uni goes back over its books to probe potential underpayment

Curtin University will review the payment of casual staff from as far back as 2015 in the wake of high-profile wage theft cases across the university sector.

  • byHolly Thompson
This WA university’s course sees graduates command top dollar. Why?

This WA university’s course sees graduates command top dollar. Why?

Undergraduates in WA are now some of the highest paid and most in-demand in the country.

  • byHolly Thompson
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Curtin University staff vote no to ‘insulting’ pay offer

Curtin University staff vote no to ‘insulting’ pay offer

National Tertiary Education Union Curtin branch president Scott Fitzgerald said the offer was “an insult” to the hard work staff put in every day.

  • byHolly Thompson
Plea for Perth to use empty quarantine site for coming tsunami of homeless uni students
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Plea for Perth to use empty quarantine site for coming tsunami of homeless uni students

Universities are preparing to deal with a flood of homeless overseas students unable to find a bed when the new semester starts later this month.

  • bySarah Brookes
How three tiny specks of dust could boost Earth’s anti-asteroid arsenal

How three tiny specks of dust could boost Earth’s anti-asteroid arsenal

West Australian scientists studying miniscule grains of dust collected from an asteroid have forced a major rethink on potentially calamitous clumps of rock and rubble.

  • byCameron Myles
Curtin University dean of medicine ‘fired for no reason’ after just seven months in the job
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Curtin University dean of medicine ‘fired for no reason’ after just seven months in the job

Professor Julie Quinlivan emailed staff at Curtin University’s medical school claiming she was called into the faculty’s pro vice-chancellor’s office with “no warning” on Monday.

  • byHolly Thompson
Perth suburban council moves for power to ignore petitions

Perth suburban council moves for power to ignore petitions

Progress on an $80 million recreational facility opposite an inner-city university has ground to a halt – despite a community that actually wants development. And now some councillors want to only deal with ‘decorous and temperate’ petitions.

  • byEmma Young