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Recent Senate paper builds up reader expectations of a robust effort to reform VET – but the Coalition’s minority report shoots down those hopes. By John Mitchell A familiar experience: you start reading a new government report on the VET ...

More than a third of medical students post inappropriate material, mainly depicting intoxication, to their social media accounts, according to an Australian survey. The voluntary online survey, held during six months in 2013, was completed by 880 of the 16,993 ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast’s new campus will almost double its student population. USC has recently won a tender from Moreton Bay Regional Council to set up a campus in Petrie, Brisbane. The campus will be completed in 2020 and ...

Young tech-savvy workers are more likely to risk computer security systems than their less impulsive older colleagues, an Adelaide researcher says. A University of Adelaide study into different personality traits and computer behaviours says younger tech-savvy employees are more likely ...

A researcher will use supercomputers to power through almost 3000 years worth of calculations in one year. Professor Richard Sandberg, a University of Melbourne aircraft engine expert, has secured the use of Swiss and US supercomputers to do the calculations needed to complete ...

Changes to the Youth Allowance will get more people into country universities, the Regional Universities Network has said. Ushered through Parliament last week, these changes mean all dependent children will be taken into consideration for Youth Allowance eligibility. Previously, some ...

The Australian Research Council has reiterated that its grants aren’t based on gender. Next year, the ARC plans to implement a range of measures to close research’s gender gap. This includes improving gender balance on grant selection committees, investigating options ...