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La Trobe University historian and prize-winning author, Professor Marilyn Lake, has been elected president of the Australian Historical Association (AHA). A two-year posting, she takes over from Professor Martyn Lyons from UNSW. Lake is a fellow of the Australian Academy ...

Professor Paul Glasziou, an expert in evidence-based medicine, has joined Bond University from the University of Oxford to take up the position of director of the newly formed Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice. Glasziou was previously director of the ...

Jack Ah Kit, the NT’s first Aboriginal government minister, will head a new group that will advise Charles Darwin University on indigenous matters. Ah Kit will chair the 10-member vice-chancellor’s indigenous advisory council, which will provide high-level advice to Professor ...

Dave Guerin has been studying the wave of hypocrisy as the NZ government says it will tie funding to employment outcomes. Graduate outcomes hit the news in New Zealand this month. In many countries, this might be a time when ...

The teaching of research skills in undergraduate years is also doing some serious value-adding, according to a new study. Putting elite science undergraduates into a research-intensive environment doesn’t mean they automatically learn more about science. That’s the surprising finding from ...

A dramatic decline in the number of high school students studying science has prompted a variety of interventions to reverse the trend. By Annie May. There is growing concern that the significant decline in high school students choosing senior physics, ...

Education is increasingly out of the reach of the average American, and Toby Miller wonders why. A few months ago, I asked a puppeteer, an artist, a perfumier, and an assistant professor – each of whom were their first generation ...