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The publication of data sets could swiftly become as important as publishing papers, thanks to a national initiative aimed at making data more easily accessed, shared and reused. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) will allow researchers to perform a ...

A web 2.0 learning program is taking off in Australian libraries, and may help secure their future in a rapidly changing world, reports Jeremy Gilling. Fears that the internet could sound the death knell for libraries are being countered by ...

Education has “a positive and significant effect” on labour market experiences, new research has confirmed. Researchers from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at University of Melbourne, found a “significant intergenerational relationship between parents’ and children’s education ...

Monash University and the University of Melbourne will each contribute $5.5 million towards the construction of the largest collaborative library storage facility in Australia. The $16 million library project will treble the storage capacity of the existing space of CAVAL ...

Online education will expand more than twice as quickly as any other industry in Australia over the next 12 months, according to a new report which predicts the country’s top 10 growth industries in 2009-10. Business information analysts IBISWorld say ...

The federal government has challenged recent Fairfax newspaper reports about international student deaths in Australia, claiming the figures quoted in the articles don’t tally with its own data. The 1 July reports in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, based on coronial ...