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Teaching adult professionals can sometimes be a challenging task, and not all teaching techniques work effectively across age groups. Currently, multiple methods are available to prepare and deliver lessons, and with experience, those teaching older cohorts adapt these techniques and ...

Sydney University staff and students are set to strike over academic job security and working conditions after the union says management failed to respond to its proposals. On Wednesday, people from all walks of university life will be at the ...

In a rapidly changing society, ongoing learning is important for vocational training teachers; one way for them to keep learning is through the workplace.  In her new book, Supporting the Workplace Learning of Vocational and Further Education Teachers: Mentoring and ...

A new Curtin University initiative is aiming to give regional women more job opportunities across the healthcare, agriculture, regional tourism and technology sectors. Launched this month, the initiative, thought to be the ‘first of its kind’ was created in partnership ...

New research in protected cropping using medicinal cannabis by La Trobe University is aiming to develop Australia’s agricultural industry and establish an Australian supply chain for medicinal cannabis. The project recently received $5m in funding from the Australian Government’s Regional ...

As of 2019, Australian universities produced about 10 thousand PhD graduates each year, a number that kept growing in the previous 20 years while increasing the competitiveness of the academic job market.  A recent study from the University of Sydney analysed over ...

A one per cent investment in research and development could raise productivity and increase Australia’s revenue by $24 billion over the next decade, says Universities Australia. This means for every $1 invested in the research sector, $5 would be returned to ...

A new study by UNSW Business school, Yale School of Management and Guanghua School of Management at Peking University reveals that feeling attractive while shopping changes consumer behaviour.  According to senior lecturer in the School of Marketing at UNSW Business ...

From a very young age, Flora Salim has always been fascinated with technology, patterns and computing.  The now UNSW Engineering Professor became interested in computing since primary school, when at just 11 years old she learnt how to code. Salim’s ...

New research shows less than a quarter of Australian children and young people are meeting the national physical activity guidelines for their age group, sparking health concerns among professionals. Gathered for the 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children ...