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The time is now for government to put significant funds into universities, the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales has said. A report from Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Contributions of Australia’s Research Universities – the UNSW example, ...

Medical cannabis is already legal in Australia and has been for a while, a researcher from the University of Sydney has said. Clinical associate professor Nick Lintzeris, from USYD’s Lambert Initiative for research into cannabis-based therapeutics, said there is great ...

Private VET must self-regulate effectively to stop dodgy providers, the Australian Council for Private Education and Training has said. In his response to the Senate inquiry into the sector, ACPET chief executive Rod Camm acknowledged systemic flaws in private VET ...

The resources boom has forced Australia to play global economic catch-up, the provost of the University of Technology, Sydney has said. Professor Peter Booth said the success and economic shortsightedness of the resources boom created an environment where Australia didn’t ...

Labor and the Greens have both concluded that the findings of a Senate inquiry into the private VET sector reflect what they’ve been saying all along – that there are big problems that need to be fixed. The Senate inquiry into ...

The Australian Education Union has hit back against claims that it dictates New South Wales teacher education policy to limit the number of incoming teachers for the benefit of its existing members. Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor professor Greg Craven previously told Campus Review that ...

The internet famous inventors behind the Wave Extinguisher are encouraging any university student with wild ideas to pursue, create and innovate. The Wave Extinguisher is a portable device that puts out fire with sound, invented by Seth Robertson and Viet ...