In 2016, 1.4 million students in the Philippines entered a Grade 11 class for the first time in the country’s history. In 2017, 1.2 million of these students enrolled in…
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“I’ve enjoyed seeing just what I’m capable of”
Posted by hcollett | Humanities, Uncategorized | No CommentsAs a sickly child, Margaret Strike didn’t think she’d live long enough to travel and see the Egyptian pyramids she read about in books. It was the beginning of a…
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“It’s fun to do things outside your comfort zone.”
Posted by hcollett | Humanities, Uncategorized | No CommentsJennifer Power-Geary long decided that with her range of interests, she would be an actor, scientist or a presenter at a zoo. The UNE science honours student has studied a…
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All the dirt on an archaeology intensive
Posted by hcollett | Humanities, Uncategorized | No CommentsOf all the intensive schools happening at the University of New England (UNE) over the past couple of weeks, the archaeology students have been perhaps the most visible. They’ve been…
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Can you teach happiness? A former school principal and UNE education PhD candidate has left his home and livelihood to find out. Kaka (who has just the one name) has…
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Writing equality into the criminal justice system
Posted by hcollett | Humanities, Uncategorized | No Comments“The New York Police Department hired its first female detective in 1912, but when Dorothy Uhnak joined in 1953, women were still a minority,” says UNE lecturer in writing and…
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Image: Grassroots peacebuilding conference in Ad-Damazine Sam Angulo Onapa, UNE Peace Studies PhD Candidate, shares his experience with peacebuilding and vison for the future: “I started my PhD studies at UNE in…
Read moreLanguages student translates learning into poetry prize
Posted by hcollett | Uncategorized | No CommentsUNE languages graduate and former employee, Jim Scanlan, has won a national competition for the translation of an important Indonesian poem into English. Jim, who graduated with a Diploma in…
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Exhibition tracks stories of the Stolen Generations
Posted by hcollett | Uncategorized | No CommentsExhibition tracks stories of the Stolen Generations You never know where a story might lead you. Historian and artist Dr Lorina Barker, speaker at the final session of the public…
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