In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite steps in to provide some expert commentary on the Five Big Myths of Growing Old, according USQ’s resident expert gerontologist.

In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite steps in to provide some expert commentary on the Five Big Myths of Growing Old, according USQ’s resident expert gerontologist.

With nearly one-third of people with epilepsy having forms resistant to current medication, some people turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope – and anecdotal evidence claiming – that it will work.

Now researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership with Epilepsy Action Australia, are seeking out parents who use cannabis-based medicines to treat their child’s epilepsy.

With nearly one-third of people with epilepsy having forms resistant to current medication, some people turn to medical cannabis, driven by hope – and anecdotal evidence claiming – that it will work.

Now researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative, in partnership with Epilepsy Action Australia, are seeking out parents who use cannabis-based medicines to treat their child’s epilepsy.

Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students?

The answer may depend on which elected official you’re referring to. But ANU’s Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy, argues teens could teach the politicians a thing or two about environmental sustainability.

“If we all did the same thing why do you need forty-two universities in Australia?”

“If we all did the same thing why do you need forty-two universities in Australia?”

Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students?

The answer may depend on which elected official you’re referring to. But ANU’s Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public Policy, argues teens could teach the politicians a thing or two about environmental sustainability.

A new program is getting students to play to their strengths in the academic environment, and it has the potential to engage staff.

“The bluestocking is the most odious character in society…she sinks wherever she was placed, like the yolk of an egg, to the bottom, and carries the filth with her.”

That’s the thoughts of 18th century English writer, William Hazlitt, on the Blue Stockings Society of England. These upper-class British women – or “blue stockings” as they were derisively referred to at the time – formed this circle because men wouldn’t let them into university. These women adopted the moniker of blue stocking as their own, and formed a group. There they debated literature, and fought for women’s education.

It’s this fight that the National Tertiary Education Union is continuing with its Bluestocking Week 2016. And while things have certainly changed since the 1700s, a glaring gender gap still persists in higher education, argues Jeannie Rea, NTEU national president.