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The education minister, Christopher Pyne, and federal opposition leader Bill Shorten have traded fresh jibes over the Coalition’s higher-education reform bill, which remains bogged down in the Senate with just a handful of sitting days left this year. In a ...

An Australian-led international project that compiles data from crocodile attacks on humans is set to expand thanks to a much-needed funding boost. The Worldwide Crocodilian Attack Database, dubbed CrocBITE by co-creator and Charles Darwin University researcher Dr Adam Britton, was developed ...

The integration of new and emerging technologies into learning spaces is a key factor influencing prospective students’ choice of university. Results from a newly released survey of 1500 students – made up of those studying and recent graduates – from Australia, India, Singapore, ...

A senior University of Queensland marine environment researcher has waded into the political milieu following Barack Obama’s recent speech at his university after Australian Government figures criticised the US president’s concerns regarding the Great Barrier Reef. In his UQ address, which ...

Former PM Gough Whitlam was a champion of higher education and so much more; but he took a particular interest in the fate of the people of western Sydney. By Barney Glover The death of Edward Gough Whitlam touched a ...

The learning and development industry must re-imagine the way an increasingly impatient, diverse and tech-savvy workforce interacts with content. By Joel Beath and Andrew Moroney Historically, eLearning companies have possessed competency and rigour in academia, applying traditional learning frameworks to ...

UTS has unveiled its latest program aimed at maximising the commercialisation of research, announcing a new start-up plan in partnership with the Kolling Institute of Medical Research at Sydney’s Royal North Shore hospital. SPARK Sydney, which the university spruiks as the ...

A sweeping inquiry into the regulation and funding of private vocational education and training providers is set to kick off in the Senate today after being delayed by Thursday’s sensational events in the upper house. The inquiry’s terms of reference, negotiated between Labor ...

A Curtin University PhD student who spends much of her time recording and analysing underwater soundscapes for the mutual benefit of local dolphin and human populations has taken out the 2014 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (TMT) title. Having already won ...

GPs are working harder now than they were a decade ago and older patients accounted for about a third of their clinical workload in 2013–14, new research shows. The results come from two reports published today from the Family Medicine Research ...