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U.lab is a physical space with an online presence that showcases its work as a creative powerhouse at the University of Technology, Sydney. The brainchild of Dr Jochen Schweitzer, a senior lecturer at the business school, u.lab gets students to ...

The Victorian TAFE Association, the National Tertiary Education Union and community groups are fighting hard to get the Victorian government to reverse its decision to cut up to $300 million from the TAFE budget. While the Victorian government has set ...

A huge fossilised collection of prehistoric animals in Queensland, including giant wombat-like marsupials, may explain how they came to be extinct, scientists say. Queensland Museum and Griffith University palaeontologists, working with Outback Gondwana Foundation (OGF) volunteers, made the find near ...

With enterprise agreements at universities around the country expiring on June 30, the National Tertiary Education Union has said it plans to target the increasing casualisation of the academic workforce in its next round of bargaining. NTEU research has shown ...

The only Australian woman to have been awarded a Nobel prize says governments must maximise educational opportunities for children to stop the decline in students studying science at university. Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, a molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel ...

Time is running out to enter the Association for Tertiary Education Management/Campus Review Best Practice Awards, with entries closing on June 30. Executive director of ATEM Paul Abela said academics and professionals who take on management duties at universities, TAFEs, ...

The Australian National University has announced it will go ahead with plans to radically reshape its music program, despite protests from staff and students. Thirteen full-time jobs will go; the number of academic positions will drop from 24 to 13, ...

The NSW Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, has criticised the current teaching standard of universities training the state’s public school teachers. The minister has commissioned a discussion paper, on reforms to improve the standard of teaching, from the Education Department, the ...

  Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has praised Oxford University for standing up for her during “difficult times”.   After being presented with an honorary doctorate by the university’s chancellor, Chris Patten, she said that recalling fond memories ...

The cost of making the transition to full open access could require universities to discourage or bar researchers from publishing minor papers in order to maintain funds for publication in top journals. That is the conclusion of one of the ...