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Online universities are helping students become the first in their family to gain a degree, a new report has found. The Open Universities Australia June report on first-in-family students, found that more than half of 41,000 students studying online are the ...

UNSW’s new MOOC is not only helping teachers in Australia and overseas deliver education online, it's also receiving accolades from the US president. The MOOC called Learning to Teach Online, run by Coursera, delivers professional development courses for free to teachers ...

Children with disabilities who leave school without basic numeracy skills may struggle to gain employment later on, a Queensland University of Technology expert is arguing. Dr Bronwyn Ewing from QUT’s faculty of education pointed to the 2012 Human Rights Commission ...

Making mathematics more difficult can actually improve learning in low-achieving students, a new study has found. The Monash University study explored a unique way of delivering a lesson on fractions where teachers provide students with challenging maths tasks to work ...

The University of Melbourne has taken up the challenge of instilling a love for STEM subjects in young children. Over two days the university is hosting 300 primary school students at the Melbourne School of Engineering and will show students ...

Proteins in blood may help detect if a person is suffering from dementia a decade before they experience troubling symptoms, scientists say. An American study involving more than 100 people found the level of protein was significantly different for healthy ...

Chimpanzees have the same types of smiles as humans when laughing and do not even need to make a sound to be understood, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth say that chimpanzees' communication is more ...