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University staff are coming together to contradict vice-chancellors on deregulation and push to make institutions what they should be. By Julie-Ann Robson The Abbott Government’s ideological push to deregulate universities, together with the spectacle of the Go8 vice-chancellors clambering after ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has thrown its support behind an international campaign aimed at providing a more accurate picture of medical trial data. The AllTrials campaign calls for the data from every validly completed medical trial ...

A group of high school teachers have headed back to university to brush up on their skills in core subjects: maths, science, engineering and technology. The STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy for science, technology, engineering and mathematics is being run by ...

The education minister, Christopher Pyne, and federal opposition leader Bill Shorten have traded fresh jibes over the Coalition’s higher-education reform bill, which remains bogged down in the Senate with just a handful of sitting days left this year. In a ...

An Australian-led international project that compiles data from crocodile attacks on humans is set to expand thanks to a much-needed funding boost. The Worldwide Crocodilian Attack Database, dubbed CrocBITE by co-creator and Charles Darwin University researcher Dr Adam Britton, was developed ...

The integration of new and emerging technologies into learning spaces is a key factor influencing prospective students’ choice of university. Results from a newly released survey of 1500 students – made up of those studying and recent graduates – from Australia, India, Singapore, ...

A senior University of Queensland marine environment researcher has waded into the political milieu following Barack Obama’s recent speech at his university after Australian Government figures criticised the US president’s concerns regarding the Great Barrier Reef. In his UQ address, which ...

Former PM Gough Whitlam was a champion of higher education and so much more; but he took a particular interest in the fate of the people of western Sydney. By Barney Glover The death of Edward Gough Whitlam touched a ...

The learning and development industry must re-imagine the way an increasingly impatient, diverse and tech-savvy workforce interacts with content. By Joel Beath and Andrew Moroney Historically, eLearning companies have possessed competency and rigour in academia, applying traditional learning frameworks to ...

UTS has unveiled its latest program aimed at maximising the commercialisation of research, announcing a new start-up plan in partnership with the Kolling Institute of Medical Research at Sydney’s Royal North Shore hospital. SPARK Sydney, which the university spruiks as the ...