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A Brotherhood of St Laurence study has found disengaged youth could be left behind by recent changes to vocational training. There is an old saying that you can judge a society by how well it looks after the most disadvantaged ...

Cancer patients are set to get improved access to radiation therapy as Monash University leads a new program across Australian universities to be implemented by the middle of next year. The national program will help improve access to radiation treatments ...

With only a small increase in university applications this year there is some doubt about Australia reaching the bold 2025 target for graduates. There has been a slight increase in the number of people applying for university places around Australia ...

Australian commuters are turning back to trains, trams and buses in record numbers, new analysis by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University shows. The last five years have seen the biggest jump in public transport use across Australia in ...

With teaching numbers unable to match student growth, the idea of the huge university lecture has to be rethought. While K to 12 staff-to-student ratios have fallen over the past 30 years, higher education staff-to-student ratios have increased. Universities have ...

Although the uncapping of Australian university enrolments has opened up university education to thousands more people, the NTEU says it has also resulted in overcrowded lectures and staff cuts. NTEU national president Jeannie Rea said that while removing caps was ...

A team at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has made a breakthrough that will advance research in soft electronics and industrial sensing technologies. They have developed droplets of liquid metal coated in nanoparticles that they call “liquid metal marbles”. Researchers ...

The University of Sydney's Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) (Space) course had the highest Australia Tertiary Admission Rank cut-off of any degrees offered to students in the main round offers this year. The University Admissions Centre made offers to more than ...

Research presented to a symposium at the University of Canberra has revealed that rural centres tend to ignore sexual harassment or blame the victims. The study reveals that a large majority of employers and employees in rural and remote Australia ...

Employment at UK higher education institutions has fallen for the second consecutive year, new figures show. Data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show 3540 fewer staff were employed at publicly funded higher education institutions in 2011-12 compared with ...