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The federal government has offered to split its higher-education reform bill in a move that would see the proposed 20 per cent cut in funding for the Commonwealth Grants Scheme deferred for future debate while funding of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure ...

The Australian Council for Private Education and Training has officially launched its latest measure aimed at industry self-regulation – a new code of ethics for members. The document, along with a separate Code of Practice for the Engagement of Education Agents, comes ...

Momentum behind efforts to develop a more refined model for measuring research impact is being fuelled by growing acknowledgement that the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) model is limited in its capacity to encourage research translation, a leading expert ...

By Rose Steele and Harry Rolf. Australia’s greatest resource is its people. In 2008, the findings of the Bradley Review gave us a strong blueprint for making the most of that resource.  In addition to recommending a ten per cent increase ...

A future Labor government would seek to reinstate some form of contract based arrangements with universities to help target workforce shortages in industries of need, a national higher education forum has been told. Speaking at the Universities Australia 2015 conference ...

It's only a matter of time before vision-enabled robots work side by side with humans, according to world-leading researchers at Queensland University of Technology. The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at QUT and Rethink Robotics has built a machine, dubbed ...

These researchers are on the leading edge, with projects that aim to close the many gaps in knowledge about seniors. Interviews by Antonia Maiolo and Dallas Bastian After climate change, the ageing of the global population is the most important ...

The Michael J. Fox Foundation, the organisation established by the high-profile Parkinson’s disease sufferer, has awarded a $300,000 research grant to the University of Queensland for the exploration of brain inflammation in those battling the condition. The grant was the ...

Applying science’s interdisciplinary trend to laboratory design would be a fine solution to cost and efficiency woes. By Geoff Hanmer Teaching practical science is one of the most expensive components of providing a university education. The cost of offering these ...

Americans living in the Rockies stand a better chance of dodging a zombie apocalypse than their urban counterparts. Cities would fall quickly, suggests the "large-scale exact stochastic dynamical simulation of a zombie outbreak" from Cornell University in New York state. ...