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The embarrassing health condition that stops people leaving the house
Jenny Greer is testing a world-first physiotherapy device to treat constipation in the hope of not scheduling her life around laxatives.
- Rachel Rasker
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NSW universities took $3.2 billion from domestic students but are still running at a loss
Full-time domestic students cost an average of $12,000 each even though they are paying for expensive degrees, a parliamentary report has found.
- Sally Rawsthorne
- Opinion
- AI
There are two things I’d never outsource to a robot: sex is one of them
When writers use AI to increase their efficiency, as if writing were an assembly line of mechanical functions, I feel sorry for them.
- Malcolm Knox
‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers
Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.
- Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
- Editorial
- University
Falling university rankings suggest a wider malaise
The public good value of science and education courses had been devalued, according to a report rating Australian universities.
- The Herald's View
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- University
University entry was the hardest it’s ever been this year. Next year will be worse
Sydney’s year 12 cohort will be affected by a major change to the way in which domestic students’ degrees are funded for 2027.
- Sally Rawsthorne
This new Sydney suburb almost had it all – but spent more than a decade waiting for one thing
It’s taken 13 years and 450 desperate residents to finally get Macarthur Heights a bus.
- Anthony Segaert
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- University
The $1 billion spent compensating universities for students who weren’t
Search our table to see how much of the $1 billion compensation your university was given.
- Sally Rawsthorne
- Opinion
- City life
It’s the epicentre of Sydney’s growth, with ambition and opportunity for all. But there’s one thing missing
Western Sydney, a place long misunderstood, is defining the future of the city. And yet the city has not adapted to this shift.
- Azadeh Dastyari
Mia got early entry to the uni course of her dreams. But is it killing the ATAR?
Early offers give students and universities greater certainty, but there are fears they undermine the whole point of ranking HSC results.
- Sally Rawsthorne