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An online education program is aiming to boost nurses’ emergency management skills using simulations of deteriorating patients. The program, FIRST2ACTweb (Feedback Incorporating Review and Simulation Techniques to Act on Clinical Trends), was developed by Monash University researchers, the University of ...

With so many graduates taking longer to find full-time work, Campus Review asks what recruiters want and how institutions can help students get it. A recent Graduate Careers Australia survey indicated a historical high in the number of new graduates ...

Technology can evolve in ways that ensure people with disabilities reap the benefits, too. In a recent speech, Apple chief Tim Cook described people with disabilities as locked in a struggle “to have their human dignity acknowledged”. All too frequently, ...

Overall, the Higher Education and Research Reform Bill is a package of legislation that is critical if Australia is to have a world-class higher education system. The HELP scheme, which is brilliant and the best scheme in the world but not ...

Fresh analysis revealing that the NT’s VET budget is being increasingly dwarfed by the territory’s justice and prison budget has led to criticisms that local politicians are finding it easier to deal with disadvantaged citizens via prisons rather than education. ...

Australian Catholic University has urged the Senate to reject government plans that would further extended public funding to non-university higher education providers. The university’s vice-chancellor, professor Greg Craven, last night became the first stakeholder invited to argue his case for funding ...

Some dogs may be less likely to look on the bright side of life than others. Researchers are looking to identify tendencies towards optimistic and pessimistic characteristics in animals. It is hoped the research may help identify dogs more suited to ...

Firm, internationally co-operative action to tackle greenhouse gas emissions must be secured this week or the outcome may be catastrophic for the planet, renowned Australian environmental sustainability expert Tim Flannery said. Flannery, who has taken up a professorial fellow appointment ...

Motorists' lax attitudes towards speed limits in roadwork areas may be due, in part, to the ‘cry wolf’ factor, research suggests. A study by Dr Ross Blackman of QUT’s Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety (CARRS-Q), found that drivers ignored some work-zone limits due ...

Academics, students and university staff have begun formally lodging their concerns and objections regarding the federal government’s higher-education reforms. Submissions are slowly trickling into the Senate inquiry examining the legislation. As of Friday last week, more than a dozen submissions had ...