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The recently released Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings shows Australia has six universities in the top 100, which is up from four since last year. There are 19 local institutions in the THE rankings for 2012/13. Melbourne is ...

We’ve got lots of students wanting to do gaming design and no one wanting to do IT or computing now, but we’ve got thousands of jobs in IT and computing, and about three in game design and lots of graduates.” ...

Australia should establish a federated space agency with countries in the southern hemisphere to maximise the commercial return from our space research and technology, RMIT Associate Professor Lachlan Thompson says. Thompson told the 12th Australian Space Science Conference that a ...

Race Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke has released principles to promote and protect the human rights of international students at the Australian International Education Conference, calling on organisations working with overseas students to ensure basic human rights are protected. “These principles ...

Targeting a molecule involved in the activation and movement of white blood cells could prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), University of Adelaide researchers have found. The scientists focused on a molecule known as PI3Kgamma (PI3K) and have shown ...

An international team of researchers has found a new way to measure quantum distances with light. Thanks to laser technology it is possible to measure distances using light, but even at small scales light fails to detect changes. Now in ...

Budget cuts to the state’s TAFEs are twice as likely to disadvantage women, a study by the Victorian TAFE Association (VTA) has found. The analysis, which examined 20 popular courses impacted by funding cuts, found the changes will affect more ...

The University of Melbourne has joined the free online education revolution that is transforming higher education around the world. It has announced that it has partnered with Coursera, a US for-profit company started by two professors at Stanford University, to ...

A robot that simulates complex joint motion has been developed to enhance understanding of the 3D performance of normal and diseased joints and their artificial replacements. Called the Six Degree of Freedom Hexapod Robot, its real life applications for biomedical ...

Australia should establish a federated space agency with countries in the southern hemisphere to maximise the commercial return from our space research and technology, RMIT aerospace associate professor Lachlan Thompson says. Thompson told the 12th Australian Space Science Conference that ...