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Australian universities have honoured former prime minister Gough Whitlam, who died yesterday at age 98. University of Western Sydney vice-chancellor professor Barney Glover, whose university has been the home of the Whitlam Institute since 2000, issued a statement yesterday praising the Labor ...

Australian government funding for VET education is in decline whilst schools and universities become a higher investment priority, an analysis has shown. The examination of education funding based on ABS data was carried out by independent research and policy think-tank ...

A leading educator has called for leveraging reflective practice as a way for Aboriginal nurses and midwives to navigate racism and find their way in their professions. Speaking at a recent conference held by the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses ...

New data indicating that almost 9 in 10 Australians have no determined advance care directives (AD) has led to calls for regulatory changes aimed at increasing uptake. A national phone-based survey, conducted by researchers at the Queensland University of Technology, found ...

VET deregulation measures the government recently announced have been met with a sigh of relief in the sector and are long overdue, Rohan Cresp writes. Each tranche of reform for the VET sector in recent years – and there have ...

Research has sparked fresh calls for a review of teacher training courses, as less than half of teaching graduates indicate they feel adequately trained in a number of key professional areas. The results, released yesterday within the Staff in Australia’s Schools 2013 report ...

The University of Sydney has suspended professor Barry Spurr as the fallout continues following the publishing of apparently racist comments contained within emails he had authored. Excerpts of the emails, published yesterday by news site New Matilda, included references by ...

Vice-chancellors appear to have put the financial interests of their institutions ahead of the interests of their future students, the very students who want to attend their universities and who work hard for successful admission. It is understandable but disappointing ...

Academics are already expanding the use of computer-based role-play in teaching; what’s next? Whilst computer-based role-playing is never likely to replace traditional real-world practical training experience entirely, the continued sophistication of the medium is slowly revolutionising the way graduates prepare ...

Are you standing up while reading this? You should be. The negative health effects office workers suffer as a result of prolonged sitting are the subject of new research being undertaken by the University of Queensland’s school of human movement. As ...