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Jill RowbothamLegal Affairs Correspondent

Jill Rowbotham is an experienced journalist who has been a foreign correspondent as well as bureau chief in Perth and Sydney, opinion and media editor, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine and higher education writer.

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on campus daily blogHigher Education

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Amazing gimmicks at Chinese unis

Chinese universities are in a race to the bottom to come up with novelty gimmicks designed to attract the country’s top students.

Jill Rowbotham and Tim Dodd

Higher Education

University of Western Australia music graduate Nicola Boud has been appointed professor of historical clarinet at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris.

Clarinetist achieves a French first

UWA graduate Nicola Boud will become the first woman professor of historical clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Jill Rowbotham

Higher Education

Row of cats and dogs sitting looking up into blank white web banner

Puppy love in the time of Covid-19

It seems dogs are not intrinsically better than cats in a lockdown, but they may be a catalyst for their owners’ healthier lifestyles.

Jill Rowbotham

Higher Education

Professor Virginia Schmied from Western Sydney University's School of Nursing and Midwifery – photo credit it Sally Tsoutas.

New mums’ mental healthcare boost

New funds for Western Sydney University will help address a gap in training for health workers who are caring for new mothers.

Jill Rowbotham

Higher Education

University of Southern Queensland surveying student Rebecca Johnston

Women surveying the field

University of Southern Queensland is pushing to enrol more women like Rebecca Johnston in its surveying degrees.

Jill Rowbotham

Ramsay scholarsHigher Education

2/7/21: Roseanna Bricknell is one of 20 new Ramsay Postgraduate Scholars. She will undertake the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. John Feder/The Australian.

Scholars study to be leaders of tomorrow

Twenty top postgraduates will go to the world’s best universities courtesy of Australia’s latest prestige scholarship scheme from the Ramsay Centre.

Jill Rowbotham

Higher Education

06/07/2021 Professor Sundhya Pahuja has been awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship for her research in international law with focus in democratic standards and legal accountability. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Mapping a threat to democracy

One new ARC Australian Laureate Fellow plans to establish a new field of research watching and curbing corporate power.

Jill Rowbotham

on campus daily blogHigher Education

Solar power by the ship load

Explaining the impact of a water treatment plant that fits into a shipping container may win an Australian engineer international recognition.

Jill Rowbotham and Tim Dodd

Higher Education

NOVEMBER, 2004 : Artwork by Ed Huxley of a kangaroo with an Australian flag looking at a map of South East Asia, 11/04.

Humanities want deeper Asia ties

Humanities collaborations with Asia are simply too important to our regional relationships to be sidelined and underfunded.

Jill Rowbotham

medical researchSpecial reports

Professor Mark Kendall, Vice-Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor at The Australian National University, with one of his wearable medical patches. Credit: The Australian National University

Wear it and live longer

Biomedical entrepreneur Mark Kendall is spearheading a revolution in personalised medical treatment.

Jill Rowbotham

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