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Almost one in five English-medium degrees now taught outside Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and US Culled from Times Higher Education Source: Alamy Competition in English-language tuition is heating up, according to a study showing that the number of courses outside the major anglophone study destinations has rocketed by 77 per cent in four years. Almost one in five English-medium degree programmes is now taught outside Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US, says the report published by the British Council and Studyportals on 7 December. “Students have more choice…

The University of Sydney News Findings pinpoint the homeland of modern humans: Southern Africa A landmark study led by Sydney researchers pinpoints the birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa and suggests how climate change may have driven the first migrations. A Sydney-led study has found that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African ‘homeland’ and thrived there for 70 thousand years. The breakthrough findings published today in the journal Nature today. The authors propose that changes in Africa’s climate triggered the…