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Scientists from Cambridge University have found a way to get paralysed dogs to walk again, offering new hope for research into repairing damaged human spinal cords. Movement was restored to the dogs' hind legs by injecting cells, taken from the ...

The Fair Work Amendment Tackling Job Insecurity Bill, which was introduced by Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt, would improve the job security of those workers currently employed as regular casuals or on fixed-term contracts. It would enable employees or unions ...

The University of Newcastle has called for the students’ representative body to sign an agreement not to release the identity of students involved in an appeal, complaint or investigation with the university until the conclusion of that case. The Newcastle ...

The National Tertiary Education Union is calling for a public inquiry following the collapse of a construction crane at the University of Technology Sydney. Simon Wade, president of the UTS NTEU branch, witnessed the accident and said he was concerned ...

Australian universities currently have more links with universities in China than with any other part of the world, the federal Tertiary Education Minister and a leading university lobby have announced.   Attending the Australia-China University Leaders Forum in Canberra, Senator ...

Education is Victoria’s largest export and it is the second biggest in NSW, a new report has found. The report by consultant Alan Olsen shows higher education plays a leading role in the economies of the two states. Universities Australia ...

Digital learning will be high on the agenda for Mary McAleese and her colleagues as they examine Europe’s higher education institutions. After serving 14 years as president of the Republic of Ireland, one could be excused for wishing to take ...

The University of Western Sydney has backed away from plans to dump all economics study, promising that an introductory course to economics as well as the honours program will remain. But critics say the first-year economics course consisting of eight ...

Receding hairlines, earlobe creases, puffy eyes – all these signs of physical aging are also associated with risk of heart attack, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen found that the presence of visible signs of ...

A hamburger is the latest object to be launched into outer space by a group of bored Harvard students. The five Harvard students sent the burger more than 30 kilometres into the atmosphere after attaching it to a 600-gram weather ...