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The ABC’s Fact Check unit has returned, with the help of RMIT University, to ensure the facts that public figures cite are not ‘alternative’ but plain old truth. From March, the RMIT ABC Fact Check will do what it did ...

In Australian universities, student engagement in university decision-making is patchy. That’s how the University of Technology Sydney’s professor Sally Varnham describes it, and that’s what she hopes to change after her report to the federal Department of Education is published. ...

Online private tutoring company YourTutor has expanded to the UK, beginning with a trial at the University of East London (UEL). The company has doubled in size over the past two years and seeks to continue profitable expansion in the ...

The Australian National University aims to “reflect society in all its diversity” and to engage more closely with business under a new strategic plan announced by vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt. Outlining the plan to 1000 ANU staff on Thursday 9 ...

The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...

The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...

While Newcastle electrical engineer Ken Morley and his family were touring Hangzhou, China, in 1980, they met 15-year-old Jack Ma. Morely became his friend and mentor. He challenged many of Ma’s views and helped him develop a global perspective in ...

The Mitchell Institute’s Peter Noonan has warned that VET needs to stop being conflated with apprenticeships as it could cause overinvestment in declining industries. Noonan said that falling apprenticeship numbers aren’t the main problem in VET, as this is partly ...

Despite the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries by US President Donald Trump being overturned by a federal court decision, and the decision being upheld against an appeal by the White House, there remains the real possibility that Trump will ...

Trade figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that education brought in $21.8 billion to Australia last year. This means that education export income grew by 17 per cent from 2015, the strongest annual growth since 2010. Federal ...