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Internships help students better manage their careers

  • Written by Denise Jackson, Senior Lecturer / Coordinator of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) programs, ECU School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
imageInternships give students the skills to navigate real world situations like interviews.www.shutterstock.com

In today’s hyper competitive job market, internships are becoming a must-have on almost every job applicant’s CV. But when should a worker be paid for an internship, and is the rise of unpaid internships simply broadening the gap...

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Explainer: the art of video game writing

  • Written by Brooke Maggs, PhD Candidate in Writing and Literature, Deakin University
imageClassic Mega Man ... storytelling gets inventive when your main character can't speak. Brian Talbot, CC BY-NC

Imagine writing a story where the first thing the “reader” asks when they begin is: what do I do?

The answer might be one or all of these things: explore, survive, observe, solve, form a strategy, make decisions.

Game writing is a...

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Why we regain weight after drastic dieting

  • Written by Sergio Diez Alvarez, Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle
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A few years ago I proudly lost almost 15% of my weight. However last week I stared with disbelief at my scale as I realised all my efforts were in vain and I had regained all of the previously lost weight.

This got me thinking about the mechanisms that underpin such dramatic fluctuations in weight (sometimes known as yo-yo dieting) and the defences...

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How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue

  • Written by Adi Utarini, Professor in Public Health and Project Leader of Eliminate Dengue Project Yogyakarta, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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In recent years, scientists have found an alternative to significantly decrease dengue transmission by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. By transferring Wolbachia, a bacteria that stops the dengue virus from surviving in their mosquito hosts, into Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and then releasing them to the general population, scientists dream of eliminating...

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  1. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  2. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  3. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  4. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  5. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  6. Response from Labor spokesperson
  7. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  8. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  9. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  10. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  11. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  12. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  13. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
  14. The off-topic Conversation #98
  15. Coalition leads in ReachTEL, but not in other polls
  16. Election explainer: how does the Senate count work?
  17. To Elle and Back: Reviewing the reviewers
  18. What sort of Reserve Bank governor will Philip Lowe be?
  19. Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy
  20. The growing cost of internships could add to inequality
  21. A fanfare of failures: why celebrate Florence Foster Jenkins and Eddie the Eagle?
  22. Science or snake oil: is Garcinia cambogia the magic weight-loss pill it's hyped up to be?
  23. Catholic church starts small but is clearly thinking big on fossil fuel divestment
  24. UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
  25. Shorten seeks to keep alive hope of a Labor win
  26. Bill Shorten's campaign pitch: don't risk Medicare under the Liberals
  27. On track for the Rio Olympics? IAAF ban means Russian athletes may not compete
  28. In the world's biggest city, the past offers lessons for surviving the future
  29. Shorten plays Facebook game, telling people to hit Like
  30. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, May 2016
  31. A new normal, as Basslink finally resumes
  32. Cattle 'sledgehammering' in Vietnam raises yet more questions over live export
  33. From the Queen of Sheba to Jeffrey Smart: how art shaped Bruce Beresford
  34. The problem with reinforced concrete
  35. Spiny crayfish and their flatworm friends: an ancient partnership revealed
  36. Uncapping of university places achieved what it set out to do. So why is it dubbed a policy failure?
  37. Vital Signs: an election in Australia, a key poll in the UK, all lead to uncertainty
  38. Both parties to launch in western Sydney, the symbolic heartland of uncommitted but powerful voters
  39. Coffee won't give you cancer, unless it's very very hot, then it might
  40. Did snakes evolve from ancient sea serpents?
  41. Brexit: lessons and implications for Australia
  42. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the slow campaign
  43. Uncapping of university places has not failed disadvantaged students
  44. Budget transparency missing from the West's plan for Iraq
  45. State of the states: how local politics in the Northern Territory could muddy the federal vote
  46. 700,000 Palmer United Party votes up for grabs: who'll win them this time?
  47. How the Property Council is shaping the debate around negative gearing, taxes
  48. What evidence is there that internships secure employment?
  49. State of the states: why Labor's fortunes are on the rise in Western Australia
  50. Friday essay: The Qur’an, the Bible and homosexuality in Islam
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