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A United Nations-backed coalition of world leaders, Nobel laureates and international business figures has called for a massive expansion of formal education in poor nations, so as to prevent unrest. The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world, ...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but research into deadly diseases often doesn’t get funding because pharmaceutical companies can’t make money out of it. This includes work on cures for malaria, Ebola and the Zika virus. That’s the blunt statement from University ...

The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...

Professor Colin Rhodes has stepped down as dean of the embattled Sydney College of the Arts after a decade at its helm. This came as the student occupation of the building entered its fourth week. Students are protesting the University of ...

“They say education is the key, but they keep changing the locks.” That’s Michael Graham, a 20-year-old Indigenous Charles Sturt University student in The Front Line, a new short film detailing the university experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. ...

The renewal of Canberra’s Mount Stromlo visitor centre demonstrates what scientists need to do to successfully communicate to the public that their research isn't just a waste of money, an astrophysicist has said. The visitor centre's re-emergence completes the renewal of ...

The full-time employment slump for those who have recently graduated from postgraduate degrees may have stabilised, new figures from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) have shown, but there’s still a stark gender gap in starting salaries. GCA’s Postgraduate Destinations 2015 report ...

Not tabling multiple assignments to be due on the same day and having a built environment that encourages students to get outdoors are two recommendations of a new study analysing how universities can promote mental wellbeing. "Setting-based interventions to promote ...

A data aberration has caused Charles Sturt University to be misrepresented in the latest federal Education Department statistics. These figures reported that almost half of the university’s international students drop out in their first year. The Education Department’s Selected Higher Education ...

People’s discomfort about the use of data in education will fade as older generations die, data company executives have said. Rick Jackson, chief marketing officer of data visualisation company Qlik, argued that “millennials are all about the data”. He said ...