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Academic staff at the University of Technology, Sydney launched a strike action this morning. The National Tertiary Education Union is accusing the university of “stonewalling” efforts to secure a fair staff enterprise agreement. Acting president of the NTEU’s UTS branch, Vince ...

Communication breakdowns between emergency services during major disasters may soon be a thing of the past. Research is under way that aims to develop an integrated system that will aid collaborative response efforts. Research fellow at the University of Adelaide’s Teletraffic ...

Untrained audiences attending musical performances may be placing too much emphasis on their visual sense when critically assessing music and need better skills with which to judge quality sound. That belief is the basis of a pilot study being launched ...

Companion machines are set to change the way Australian aged-care providers look after people with dementia. Robots helping to improve the quality of life of older people and people with dementia might sound like a health-inspired scene from Dr Who, ...

Australians have almost three times as much confidence in the country's universities as in Federal Parliament, a recently released ANU poll of public attitudes shows. The phone-based survey of 1388 Australians – conducted in June and July this year – asked respondents ...

An economic downturn has been blamed for a recent decline in the number of Australians commencing trade and non-trade apprenticeships and traineeships. Seasonally adjusted data that the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) released last week indicates that commencement numbers ...

The proposed new standards for training providers in VET will favour profiteers not quality. Do you believe you can have lower taxes, cheaper electricity, fewer rainy days and fewer cars on the road? If so, you will be impressed by ...

UTS’s Roy Green talks to Dallas Bastian about how management schools need to capitalise on their individual strengths to serve the changing needs of students and employers. Australian business and management education is at a critical juncture, an Australian Business ...

Students across the country are being encouraged to up the ante in opposition to the government’s push to deregulate university fees with a national day of action planned to take place in major cities next week. Concurrent events, being organised ...

A renewed partnership between the University of Southern Queensland and Toowoomba FlexiSchool will continue to create education opportunities for students in the region. Vice-chancellor professor Jan Thomas says the plan is a perfect example of how the Toowoomba community works together. ...