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Wednesday 24 June 2026
UOW remains in world’s top 50 for THE Sustainability Impact Ratings
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‘Every day I think about money’: how can we support uni students who struggle financially?
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UOW finds and fixing superannuation errors
The University of °µÍø½ûÇø (UOW) has today (Wednesday 5 April 2017) committed to fully remediate incorrect superannuation contributions after discovering longstanding anomalies in its payroll system potentially affecting thousands of current and former employees since 2009.
Should gifted students go to a separate school?
Despite two Senate inquiries in 1988 and 2001, it has taken 15 years and a state parliamentary review for the Victorian government to decide to build a specialist high school for students who are gifted, specifically targeting those from rural and regional Victoria.
Like Pokemon, UOW's innovation is everywhere
Pokemon Go's $9.9 billion boost to the share value of Nintendo is the same as the total research income evaluated by the ARC, writes UOW Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings.
‘Living here will make you fat’ – do we need a public health warning?
Men and women living in areas of highest socioeconomic disadvantage have a 29% higher risk of being obese, write Karen Charlton and Abhijeet Ghosh.
Global mobility partner institutions attend UOW’s inaugural ‘Partner Day’
UOW is strengthening its international ties conducting its inaugural global mobility  ‘Partner Day’ on 25 February – timed to suit staff from UOW’s global student mobility partners attending the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) to be  held in Melbourne from 29 February to 3 March.
What keeps physicists awake at night: ripples in space and keeping students out of black holes
Physics researchers the world over are in raptures after Albert Einstein’s 99-year-old prediction was recently confirmed.Â