By Tom Kersten An ANU spokesperson has confirmed that all students will be able to request consideration for CRS/CRN grades, which will be applied on a case-by-case basis. This will be different from the process used last year, under which […]
By Tom Kersten ANU announced the return of the CRS/CRN grading system for students affected by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in India, among a number of special considerations. The announcement tells students to “keep an eye on the Special Consideration […]
By Tom Kersten The annual TIMES Higher Education Impact Rankings were released last month with a noticeable absence of ANU. Meanwhile, the University of Canberra was ranked the highest for “reducing inequality”. Since 2019, the annual Impact Rankings have compared […]
By Ali El-Zein A number of College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) tutors have alleged that they faced significant delays before receiving their first paycheck. Observer has been told that delays varied, with some tutors getting their first paycheck […]
By Sharlotte Thou ANU will continue to make unconditional early offers to prospective students on the basis of Year 11 marks for entry in 2022, after better than expected enrolments from domestic students this year. An ANU spokesperson told Observer […]
By Keeley Dickinson Contributing Writing by Sam Delaney On Thursday 22 April 2021, we lost James Frost. James was known by a number of nicknames – Jimmy (to many of his friends), and Frosty (to a good portion of his […]
By Grace Danielson Around 7 am this morning, ACT Fire and Rescue were called to the ANU Acton campus to extinguish a fire in Building 13B. Emergency services had the fire under control by 8 am. A single demountable classroom […]
By Alex Ellwood The CRS/CRN grading system has been officially discontinued this semester. The University told Observer that this is partly due to the absence of a “special dispensation” for a pass/fail grading system from the Tertiary Education Quality […]
By Alex Elwood The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has withdrawn from negotiations regarding a proposed ANU employment scheme intended to increase “job security and career certainty for casual staff”. NTEU claims the scheme fails to address existing issues of […]
By India Kazakoff and Grace Danielson It was always anticipated that the impact of COVID-19 would see the disestablishment of some courses. But few anticipated the immense scale and magnitude this would entail. On 4 April, a post on ANU […]
