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More dementia training is necessary in degree courses for undergraduate RNs, a dementia care leader has argued. General manager of residential services at dementia and aged-care specialist HammondCare, Angela Raguz, said some RN graduates employed in dementia-specific services had received as ...

Scientists from the Australian National University and University of Aberdeen have discovered the world’s longest known continental chain of volcanoes. Named the Cosgrove hotspot track, this chain runs 2000 kilometres from North Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands to central Victoria, and was ...

Integrating mathematics into Indigenous cultures and backgrounds is key to quality teaching, a Queensland University of Technology mathematics professor has said. Professor Tom Cooper, who is director of QUT’s YuMi Deadly Centre (YDC), which works to improve mathematics outcomes for Indigenous children, ...

The Australian National University has become the nation’s first to crack the world’s top 20 higher-education institutions as judged by the QS World University Rankings. In the latest ratings, released overnight, ANU climbed six spots on its 2014 result and in ...

here is much to worry about when politicians declare that Victoria is to become the “Education State.” Will this declaration lead to more political distractions, trendy slogans and appeasements to parents instead of making a difference in classrooms?  We have ...

Campus Review’s Futureproof Now conference last week focussed upon the ways university education needed to change to fit with the jobs and employment patterns of the near future. University educators were called upon to be innovative and responsive to the ...

International education fees dominate the income universities receive from students, a new background paper from the Grattan Institute’s Higher Education Program shows. University Fees: what students pay in deregulated markets revealed $4.3 billion of the $6 billion universities receive from ...

Universities Australia has signed an agreement continuing collaboration with its Japanese counterpart. The Memorandum of Understanding between Universities Australia and Japan Association of National Universities builds on consecutive agreements signed since 1992, and aims to tighten university links between the two nations. ...