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Older workers face another decade stuck with a workplace hangover where the dream of retiring early isn't an option and spending 70 weeks trying to get back into the workforce is the grim reality. The Australian workforce needs to be ...

UPDATED: Students will pay more in a deregulated university system but the father of HECS says government can limit how much. Professor Bruce Chapman has suggested a system where government subsidies taper off if universities lift fees past a certain ...

Academics have warned the government it's putting critical research work at risk by tying infrastructure funding to its higher education overhaul. Top researchers, university bosses and scientists have written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott to sound the alarm that many ...

One man paid a private training college thousands of dollars to learn off a Wikipedia page he'd himself written. A single mum says she could have learnt more from YouTube videos than from the hairdressing course that cost her $33,000. ...

Clive Palmer claims he misspoke when he publicly urged the prime minister to commit suicide. The Palmer United Party leader was responding to comments Tony Abbott made about Mr Palmer stopping his two senators from supporting the government's higher education ...

Survey finds verbal and non-verbal abuse are widespread, with a deep impact. Interview by Dallas Bastian New research indicates that a significant percentage of Western Australia’s nursing students have been exposed to aggression and violence whilst on clinical placement. A study conducted by Murdoch ...

Babies born this year who want to be doctors when they grow up could face a bill of more than $500,000 for their time at university, new modelling shows. That pricetag, in 2015 dollars, includes sharehouse rent during a six-year ...

Antarctic Sea ice levels are perfect for emperor penguins, say researchers, who have found the frozen continent too cold for the flippered birds in the past. A team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Tasmania and the Australian Antarctic Division, ...

The University of Queensland Press was right to have rejected a pitch for Campbell Newman's memoir - but wrong for saying it was because the former premier axed a literary awards program. That's according to UQP board chair Professor Joanne ...

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has defended a $500,000 higher education information campaign against allegations it had amounted to an expensive and wasteful “flop” with its hotline attracting just 134 calls. Pyne has said the campaign – which comes as the ...