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Friday 6 November 2026
New partnership to bring Australian-first brain health assessments to veterans
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Education
Should gifted students go to a separate school?
Despite two Senate inquiries in 1988 and 2001, it has taken 15 years and a state parliamentary review for the Victorian government to decide to build a specialist high school for students who are gifted, specifically targeting those from rural and regional Victoria.
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Business and Economy
Like Pokemon, UOW's innovation is everywhere
Pokemon Go's $9.9 billion boost to the share value of Nintendo is the same as the total research income evaluated by the ARC, writes UOW Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings.
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Health and Medicine
‘Living here will make you fat’ – do we need a public health warning?
Men and women living in areas of highest socioeconomic disadvantage have a 29% higher risk of being obese, write Karen Charlton and Abhijeet Ghosh.
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Global mobility partner institutions attend UOW’s inaugural ‘Partner Day’
UOW is strengthening its international ties conducting its inaugural global mobility ‘Partner Day’ on 25 February – timed to suit staff from UOW’s global student mobility partners attending the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) to be held in Melbourne from 29 February to 3 March.
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Science and Technology
What keeps physicists awake at night: ripples in space and keeping students out of black holes
Physics researchers the world over are in raptures after Albert Einstein’s 99-year-old prediction was recently confirmed.
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Education
Gifted youngsters challenged with fun school holiday learning
More than 900 academically high-achieving primary and high school students descend on UOW.