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Australian research has garnered several money commitments for work that shows valuable benefits. By Aidan Byrne It has been an intense and interesting year for the higher education and research sectors. Of course, much of the focus has been on ...

Fed up with repeated spam emails from faux journals seeking submissions, I decided to have some fun; the results were initially amusing but ultimately concerning. By Peter Vamplew As a computer science researcher, I first encountered predatory, spam-driven publishers during ...

The education minister, Christopher Pyne, has pledged to introduce a revised version of his government’s higher-education deregulation reforms to parliament after the Senate recently voted to reject the package announced as part of May’s federal Budget. Despite further amendments – including the ...

The Vocation Ltd share price’s fall will mean some tough questions for governments from powerful stakeholders concerned about regulation and standards. By John Mitchell A trigger for the recent dive in the share price of Vocation Ltd was the realisation ...

University of Canberra VC professor Stephen Parker has launched a scathing attack against Universities Australia, his fellow university chiefs and the government itself as the Coalition’s controversial higher-education reforms face a fascinating week in the Senate. In an incendiary speech ...

A UNSW ecologist and a group of Sydney schoolgirls have identified a novel approach to preventing the nation’s Christmas trees from browning off this year: hairspray. The project, undertaken by Year 7 students at Kambala and overseen by UNSW staff, analysed the ...

Two university leaders in science and innovation discuss the role of proposed growth centres in promoting better connections between science and industry. By Andrew Bracey The federal government recently unveiled promises of a greater focus on links between research and ...

University staff are coming together to contradict vice-chancellors on deregulation and push to make institutions what they should be. By Julie-Ann Robson The Abbott Government’s ideological push to deregulate universities, together with the spectacle of the Go8 vice-chancellors clambering after ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has thrown its support behind an international campaign aimed at providing a more accurate picture of medical trial data. The AllTrials campaign calls for the data from every validly completed medical trial ...

A group of high school teachers have headed back to university to brush up on their skills in core subjects: maths, science, engineering and technology. The STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy for science, technology, engineering and mathematics is being run by ...