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 Grade 12. Another first. These were extraordinary milestones in an ambitious plan to modernise...
As 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 long struggle with health, confidence and finding her feet. --------------- “I was an average student...
Jennifer 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 bit of everything, and wouldn’t have it any other way. “I began studying a Bachelor of...
Of 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 on their hands and knees digging and surveying various mock excavation sites...
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 always dreamt big. He overcame the challenges of his humble beginnings – he’s one of 10...
“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 literary researcher Dr Lili Pâquet, who has written a book on women working in the...
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 February 2017, hoping to...
UNE 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 Modern Languages majoring in Indonesian in 2016, won the poetry section of...
Exhibition 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 Humanities Research Seminar Series in 2018, has spent four years developing an...
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