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Every high school in Australia will have at least one specialist STEM teacher if a workforce strategy floated by Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham was to come to fruition and meet its goals. In a speech in Sydney, ...

The state government admits TAFE NSW’s student management system is “unacceptable” amid revelations the agency hadn’t kept records up to date because it was so inefficient. In an internal email sent last week, TAFE NSW’s managing director said 400,000 student ...

Prospective university students might be turned off a career in nursing under changes to university loan repayment thresholds, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has warned. The college said the move might exacerbate anticipated workforce shortages – a dearth of ...

Are industry-defined qualifications no longer attractive to students? That’s the questions TAFE Directors Australia chief executive Craig Robertson said the industry needs to ask itself, following data released this week that showed government-funded training is down year on year. The National ...

Charles Sturt University students have been suspended over racist photos posted to social media, and have been told they must complete a course on Indigenous culture. Students attending a ‘politcally incorrect’ end-of-year party dressed up as Klu Klux Klan members, ...

Memory centres and a registry of clinical trial volunteers are two of the tentpoles of a new dementia network, which Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt is calling the accelerator Australia needs “to win the race against dementia”. The Australian Dementia ...

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham has named four of six members of an expert panel charged with reviewing Australia’s Qualifications Framework (AQF). The panel was set up to examine changes in the nature of work and developments in ...

Picture a cube. People will likely have varying responses to this command. For some, the cube will be large. They might imagine that it’s floating. Others will use their answer to infer something about their personality through an online quiz. But for ...

Job opportunities for nurses are growing faster than the workforce as a whole, and nurses with postgraduate qualifications will reap the greatest rewards as the health industry expands and becomes more complex. The evolution of the industry is being driven ...

Australian universities make up one-fifth of a ranking of universities founded fewer than 50 years ago, making for the biggest presence in the list. Ten of the 50 places the QS Top 50 Under 50 Ranking, released by education research company ...