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Advertisement Increased demand from domestic students for university courses has forced some institutions to push the limit on capped enrolment numbers for some courses and to turn applicants away. An uncertain job market, higher unemployment and the inability to have an overseas gap year had contributed to a growth in demand for higher education opportunities in 2021. Universities have reported an increase in demand for places from domestic students. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer A University of Syd...

Imagine a 7-year-old and a college student both take a break from their virtual classes to get a drink of water.

The Declaration of Independence guaranteed Americans the right to pursue happiness, and we haven’t stopped looking for it since. But despite the college courses, research labs and countless self-help books dedicated to that search, only 33% of Americans actually said they were happy in a 2017 survey. A new paper may help explain why: We’re trying too hard. The research, published in the journal Emotion, found that overemphasizing happiness can make people more likely to obsess over failure...

As Inauguration Day 2021 begins, the ceremony installing new President Joe Biden will be very different from any in history.

Wanted in Rome 07 Jan, 2021 Online universities in Italy are by no means inferior to traditional ones.  On the contrary, they offer conferences and events to participate in, masters in collaboration with foreign universities, and classes in which participation is required.  All you need to attend one of Italy’s online universities is a high school diploma.  However, most of them require on-site attendance with professors in order to pass exams.  There are currently eleven accredited on...

Joanne Dickson (Associate Professor of Psychology) joined the Psychology Department in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in 2016. Joanne was awarded two scholarships from the University of London (Royal Holloway) to undertake her PhD. She completed her PhD in 2003. In the UK she held academic posts at the University of London (Birkbeck College) and the University of Liverpool before returning to Perth in 2016. Joanne’s main research interests are in the areas o...

Two major grants offer support for international mother-baby iron supplements study A Melbourne-led research consortium investigating the impact of iron treatments on maternal and newborn health in low-income countries has received two major grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worth almost $US 9.6 million. The funding, awarded in 2020, will support major clinical trials in Malawi, South Asia, Africa and Bangladesh, investigating whether intravenous iron treatment given to women in p...

 E-Mail Credit: WEHI, Australia A Melbourne-led research consortium investigating the impact of iron treatments on maternal and newborn health in low-income countries has received two major grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worth almost $US 9.6 million. The funding, awarded in 2020, will support major clinical trials in Malawi, South Asia, Africa and Bangladesh, investigating whether intravenous iron treatment given to women in pregnancy improves the physical and psychological he...

December 14, 2020 When sociologists detailed the rise of “victimhood culture” several years ago, they were vilified for triggering the people most likely to see victimization in everything. Now researchers at American and Israeli universities claim to have identified perpetual victimhood as a “novel personality trait” that they refer to as “Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood.” Writing in Personality and Individual Differences, they say the trait is marked by “an enduring ...

  Here’s some news: As it turns out, there’s a bunch of people in the world who think of themselves as victims. Even though they aren’t. If you own a TV, you may have come to such a conclusion multiple times a day. But now it’s been declared by people you can always trust: researchers. Personality and Individual Differences reveals a newly-defined type. Wanna see if you qualify? On a scale from 1 to 5, rate your level of agreement with the following: It is important to me that people ...