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The Australian Higher Education News 3 September 2025

Clare flags sharper teeth for watchdog
Skills trump diversity, uni review told
‘Super corals’ to the reef’s rescue
Reformation wars: What Jason Clare and Henry VIII have in common
Musical chairs as education deans swap
Chinese embassy officials quietly spy on Canberra espionage case in court
‘Time for US-style college system’
I teach at our top uni – and AI cheating is out of control
Is the President winning his battle against the universities?

Subscription cancellations

Upcoming cancellation: PRS Country Data Online (CDO)

QUTs subscription to PRS Country Data Online (CDO) will cease on 20 September 2025.

Similar content is available via EIU Viewpoint.

 

For a full list of cancellations please refer to the 'Cancellations' tab in this guide.  

Language Data Commons of Australia at UQ Research and Innovation Week

Upcoming ARDC workshops, in person at UQ:

Growing a mature research infrastructure ecosystem in HASS

9 Sept 1.30 pm

Discover how LDaCA is contributing to a broader Research Data Commons alongside the ARDC and positioning Australia internationally as a leading contributor of language collections and digital infrastructure.

 

Get Started with Federal Hansard for HASS Research

11 Sept 9.30 am

Unlock the power of parliamentary transcripts with this hands-on workshop (no coding experience needed)!

New release: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Successful Marketing

An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Successful Marketing

Author: Roy Larke

Fundamentals of Successful Marketing is a marketing textbook designed to present concepts, terms, and frameworks commonly needed in an introductory course on marketing.

Publisher: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | University of Waikato

Subjects: Sales and marketing management

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International Licence

Library news and media sources

View all QUT Library subscriptions to online news publications 

Business specific content: 

  • Factiva  > Select ‘Switch Factiva’ at the top of the page for a more user friendly interface for  a range of publications (including AFR online – 2-3 day embargo).
  • Financial Times content is still available from the following databases (with a one-month embargo): 

Please contact library.buslaw@qut.edu.au if you have any questions about resources. 

QUT Library Research Skills Training and Events - September

>   Session information

Authorship, Peer review and Publication

Coming soon! Let professionals, experts and practitioners take you on a path covering the processes, roles, options, tools, and resources, on authorship, peer review and publication.

Register here for Authorship, Peer Review and Publication (1): Presubmission, September 9

Register here for Authorship, Peer Review and Publication (2): Postsubmission, September 10

EndNote Essentials

An interactive module or live session with exercises in the basic applications of EndNote needed to get started.

Access the online module here.

Go here under self-directed learning with session recordings and exercises

Go here for the QUT EndNote Instructions Guide

Advanced EndNote

Advanced EndNote is an interactive session for managing references in libraries and documents, which builds on the content learnt in EndNote Essentials. Learn how to manage Endnote effectively and safely across locations, collaborate with peers, and advanced skills for editing and formatting references and working with Thesis and other Word documents.

Register here for Wednesday, 3 September, 1.00pm – 2.30pm, online.

Data Management Planner Clinic

This presentation and Q&A session for HDR students and staff will introduce QUT's Data Management Planner, with half the time dedicated for your questions and troubleshooting. Learn about:

  • Why research data management matters and who needs a data management plan
  • How to access the Data Management Planner and create and export a data management plan
  • Version control and HDR supervisor features.

Please bring along any concerns, questions, or draft plans.

Register here for Thursday, 4 September, 11.00am – 12.00pm, online.

Hacky Hour

A data skills meet-up with fellow research students, practitioners and key support staff to ask questions, get advice on a problem, share knowledge, chat and get help.

  • Experts are on hand to advise on problems related to coding, data analytics, digital tools, research data management, or open research.
  • Bring your questions on data wrangling, programming with R, Python, SQL, Data management planning, version control, statistics, data visualisation, data sharing, data publishing, and web APIs.
Register here for sessions run weekly, Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, online.

Copyright and your thesis

A session to equip HDR students with the skills to manage copyright within your thesis, ready for final submission and publishing via QUT ePrints. You will learn about:

  • Managing the copyright of your own works
  • Using others works in your thesis
  • Requesting permissions
  • Using Creative Commons works
  • Understanding Fair Dealing exceptions
  • Completing the Copyright Compliance Table
Register here for Tuesday, 9 September, 2.00pm – 3.00pm, online.

Research Data Management Consultation

Meet up with the Research Data Librarian to:

  • Ask questions on planning, storing, organising, sharing, archiving and publishing issues for your research data.
  • Seek advice and assistance for creating your Research Data Management Plan.
  • Share what you are working on from your laptop or computer for input.
Register here for Wednesday, 10 September, 2.00pm – 3.00pm, online.

Unlocking Gen AI potential: Prompting for research

This self-paced interactive module allows you to learn all the skills necessary to get started with creating effective prompts. It covers a number of related topic areas and offers hands-on opportunities to practice prompting in Copilot. Learn how to:

  • Using Gen AI tools at QUT
  • Copyright and ethical use of Gen AI
  • Understanding prompt engineering
  • Creating effective prompts
  • Using Microsoft Copilot Web
Access the online module here.

QCIF Training

Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) provides a large suite of data science, data management, programming and statistical analysis related training. QUT is a member of QCIF so training is free.

Training sessions for September published to date are:

Impact of Social Sciences (LSE)

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