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Monash medical dispensing wins teaching and learning excellence award

Monash medical dispensing wins teaching and learning excellence award

Monash University – MyDispense. A philanthropic web application that provides pharmacy students with virtual experience in the dispensary, MyDispense has been adopted by more than 200 universities and colleges worldwide, from the US to Malaysia to Zambia. Developed by Monash University, the award-winning MyDispense simulation includes an inventory of more than 1000 drugs along with virtual health professionals …read more

AgriProve’s innovation helps farmers earn carbon credits

AgriProve’s innovation helps farmers earn carbon credits

AgriProve is on the frontier of climate solution projects, providing farmers and landholders with a way to earn carbon credits from their land by sequestering soil carbon under pasture, crops, horticultural and mixing farming systems. Soil Carbon Sequestration at Scale works by taking baseline soil carbon measurements from soil cores up to a metre deep. Subsequent …read more

‘Fifth domain of war’ becomes more frequent

‘Fifth domain of war’ becomes more frequent

Ukraine has been battered by Russian cyber-attacks since Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in 2014, with the barrage surging in the weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February and continuing in the months since. Including data theft, disinformation, deep fake technology, distributed denial-of-service attacks, phishing, and data-wiper malware, the wide-ranging attacks targeted …read more

Social media is alive with criminal activity

Social media is alive with criminal activity

Social media can be an effective way of staying on top of trends, staying in touch with friends and family and staying abreast of professional developments: yet there are any number of criminals lurking on the various platforms, ready to snap up the unwary. Users’ data is constantly sought and monetised and social media has …read more

Green hydrogen stakes a strong claim as a solution

Green hydrogen stakes a strong claim as a solution

Russia’s aggressive cuts to natural gas exports and landmark US legislation have jointly boosted the global pursuit of carbon-free green hydrogen in recent months, firming a widespread resolve to find green hydrogen solutions to the climate change crisis. The US Inflation Reduction Act, passed in August, authorises US$369 billion in spending on energy security and climate …read more

Top 100 Financial Advisors

Top 100 Financial Advisors

The Top 100 Financial Advisers list is a collaboration between The Australian and its corporate cousin, Barron’s.

Melbourne University the top-ranked business school for reputation

Melbourne University the top-ranked business school for reputation

Ian Harper, dean of the top-ranked Melbourne Business School for reputation, says the school has an established reputation. The school has benefited from its structure, he adds. “Broadly speaking there are three elements; one is the relationship with the business community, the others are the quality of the students and the quality of academics.” These elements …read more

What’s hot in post-graduate business courses

What's hot in post-graduate business courses

Students see healthcare management, behavioural economics and data analysis as pathways to future employment. UTS business school associate dean (education) Sara Denize says employer need is pushing change at a time of robust employment. “We’re seeing a shift in some content areas that people are really very focused on and where there are labour market shortages,” …read more

These executives did an MBA and started their own companies

These executives did an MBA and started their own companies

Business schools are incubators of the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Three MBA students reveal how they were inspired to turn ideas into businesses. Holly Richards began exercising at home for the first time during the pandemic lockdowns. Always plus-sized, she revelled in the freedom of moving her body in private. “I started to really get into it …read more

Sins of the father: President Marcos the younger faces court over stolen billions

Sins of the father: President Marcos the younger faces court over stolen billions

Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, affectionately known as Bongbong, is treading carefully. Elected president of the Philippines in a landslide victory in May, the son of the late dictator and notorious kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos is facing the nation’s Sandiganbayan graft court in a case concerning the giant stash of assets stolen by his father. Earlier this month, Marcos Jnr’s …read more