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      • Gun laws stopped mass shootings in Australia
      • School for startups: the course launching new student businesses
      • Australian universities equip students with key social skills

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13 March 2018

Australian universities equip students with key social skills

An Australian university education boosts desirable graduate attributes including extraversion and agreeableness along with intellectual skills, according to a new study by University of Sydney researchers.
13 March 2018

School for startups: the course launching new student businesses

PhD student Anastasia Volkova has raised $1.5 million for her startup, which could transform the way farmers grow crops. It all began when she enrolled in a course that blends innovative research with business skills.
13 March 2018

Gun laws stopped mass shootings in Australia

The odds that a 22-year absence of mass shootings in Australia since 1996 gun reforms are due to chance are one in 200,000, new research reveals.