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  Terrible massacres on campuses are fortunately rare, but it is still critical to be alert to warning signs, a conference on threat management was told last week. Dr Gene Deisinger, one of two American speakers at the University of ...

  Five universities have collaborated with leading aged care providers to mount an Australian-first study to reduce social isolation among older people, which the researchers have identified as one of the most serious mental and physical health risks facing the ...

High achieving school leavers will have to keep achieving before they can enter post-grad, university says. Students assured entry to postgraduate courses at the University of Western Australia because they have entered with a high year 12 score will still ...

Growing global demand for courses on border security has prompted the University of Canberra’s school of customs to set up shop in Colombo. If international students can’t or won’t travel to your university, take your university to them: that has ...

A nanomedicine research centre which was launched last week at the University of New South Wales will be run jointly by faculties of science, engineering and medicine. The new Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN), was opened last week by Australia’s ...

The Mind the Gap blog attracts a mixed bag of readers – academics, K to 12 teachers, tech people – to go with its mixed contents. It’s easy to forget, if you’re the sort of person who spends all day ...

A conference being held this week at Newcastle University will look at directing effective strategies to prevent violence and encourage collaboration between agencies.

Pushing universities into the future is key if Australia’s higher education institutions want to prosper, says the director of the University of Southern Queensland’s recently revamped digital centre.

While students may be unhappy with the quality of the teaching in research-rich environments, this is more than compensated for by the overall experience, researchers find Students who find themselves in a research-intensive environment improve their chances of completing their ...

High academic effort teamed with low administrative input is a recipe for campus happiness, an economist has found Academics are happiest in institutions where they are free to teach classes they way they wish and without administrative interference, a conference ...