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The number of students in hoc to the federal government – and the debt – has never been higher. Australian university student HECS-HELP debt is the highest in history, currently more than $23 billion. The average debt per student is ...

Margy Osmond brings a strong background in the private sector and government to her senior NSW post. The inaugural chief executive of the Australian National Retailers Association and former head of the NSW and Sydney chambers of commerce, Margy Osmond, ...

A competition has been launched by The Big Issue magazine challenging university students to come up with the next big idea for the publication brand. The competition, called The Big Idea, will seek ideas that provide job opportunities for homeless, ...

If this year’s three Friday the 13ths have been unlucky for you, it may have been for a reason. For the very superstitious, Friday the 13th is one of the unluckiest dates on the calendar. Scientifically there is no evidence ...

Thousands of chickens have been killed by a new virus caused by live-vaccine recombination Research from the University of Melbourne has shown two different vaccine viruses have combined to produce new infectious viruses. The vaccines were used simultaneously to control ...

The new vice-chancellor of Adelaide University, Professor Warren Bebbington, who took up his post this month, says the proposed merger with the University of South Australia might lead to larger class sizes and compromise teaching. Bebbington’s predecessor, Irish botanist Professor ...

Roads are on the research agenda for a southern Queensland university, as heavy rain is forecast to drench the region once again. Rainfall events in Queensland over the past three years have exceeded what would be expected for a one-in-100-year ...

Researchers have unveiled a project to share the thousands of years of indigenous knowledge and understanding of Australia’s landscape, plants and animals with the wider community. A University of Newcastle research team will look to develop and evaluate new ways ...

Researchers hope a supercomputer simulation of the common cold virus will help in drug development Melbourne researchers are now simulating in 3D the motion of the complete human rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, on Australia’s fastest ...

Just when you thought technology couldn’t get any smaller, scientists have invented paint-on power Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a prototype liquid spray-on battery that can be painted on virtually any surface. The rechargeable battery features similar ...