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The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group wants universities to have more say in how they spend their funding dollars. They say that universities only get to fully determine how a fifth of their endowment is spent. Raising the issue yesterday at the House of Representatives Inquiry ...

University management professional turned organic beef farmer Brigid Price is now, of all things, an entrepreneur. The unlikeliness comes from the fact that while almost half of all new Australian ventures are founded in rural, regional or remote areas, only 2.4 per ...

School's out for summer School's out forever For an increasing number of Australian high schoolers, Alice Cooper's lyrics resonate. They especially do so with 15-year-olds from lower SES backgrounds, according to a new ACER report. The report, based on PISA data, collated ...

Malala's bestie is everything you would think she would be. Oxford University student. Activist. Vlogger. Zimbabwean-born Varaidzo Kativhu aka Miss Varz, 20, from Birmingham in the UK is using her social media capital to try to increase diversity at her ...

If I were to tell you I could detect your personality and rate your attractiveness based solely on a head shot, would you believe me? Probably not. Would you believe an AI could do those things? Maybe, but you shouldn't, cautioned ...

J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel High-Rise painted a nightmarish vision of the future. A microcosm of class warfare, residents of a tower turn on each other. As the social order decays, violence ensues. While real life high rises are more serene, they encapsulate hidden dangers ...

Attention coders, salespeople and user experience (UX) designers: startups want you. These were the three most in-demand industry skills, as revealed by a StartupAUS report launched on Thursday. In its report, Australia's peak national advocacy group for startups, in collaboration with Microsoft, UTS and Google, also ...

As a Master of Information Systems and Technology student at Curtin University, Muhammad Majid, 28, was so poor he couldn't afford textbooks. He would either borrow them from the library – if they weren't  already borrowed by someone else, or ...

As Australia inches towards a less legalistic, more accuser-centric mode of dealing with university sexual assault, America is ebbing away from it. In September 2017, US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced interim measures that allowed cross-examination of sexual assault accusers and mediation ...

Would you rescind an award if the recipient included 'racy' photographs in a presentation? The Herpetologists’ League would. The American society of amphibian and reptile researchers revoked renown turtle researcher Richard Vogt's Distinguished Herpetologist award. This followed an audience outcry, largely on Twitter, for ...