Four blind Australians have had some of their vision restored through the implantation of bionic eyes. Before the trial, the patients, who lost vision due to degenerative retinitis pigmentosa, could sense light and dark but couldn’t see a hand waving ...
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How often do I react rather than pausing and reflecting? What are the positive and negative things I do in the workplace? Can you give me feedback about my leadership style? These are examples of questions Ben Foote, chief executive ...
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Regional university students need more support – but not at the expense of the base funding of Australia’s research. That’s the call from leading universities, unions and peak bodies following Minister for Education Dan Tehan’s pledge of $135m for regional ...
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Students who were told that video games would rot their brain might now have another good comeback in their arsenal – should they win a $10,000 esports scholarships on offer at QUT. The university recently announced it will award five ...
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Math trauma, the issue highlighted in the US edition of The Conversation, is real. If a student never masters irrational numbers then when they come to trigonometry (which involves lots of irrational numbers) they will receive a constant bombardment of ...
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The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) wants senators to quash a proposed charge on administering student loans. The group said the cost recovery measure will put Australian universities out of pocket $10 million a year. Should the Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill ...
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“I will just reply to this email.” Professionals have likely found themselves saying this in their head or to a loved one but a new study has warned that continuing to work after hours affects productivity, sleep and stress. The ...
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Undergraduates who studied at Charles Sturt University are more likely to be employed full-time three years after graduation than those from other universities – and they’re probably earning more too. That’s according to the 2018 Graduate Outcomes Survey – Longitudinal ...
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The University of Sydney has again been named Australia’s top performing university in a research-only ranking. It jumped from 26 last year to 23 in the 2018–19 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), just behind Peking University. The University of ...
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The university sector has taken umbrage with the decision by former Education Minister Simon Birmingham to block 11 applications for Australian Research Council (ARC) funding. ARC confirmed in Senate Estimates that the project applications, all from the humanities and social sciences ...
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