Job opportunities for nurses are growing faster than the workforce as a whole, and nurses with postgraduate qualifications will reap the greatest rewards as the health industry expands and becomes more complex. The evolution of the industry is being driven ...

Against a backdrop of high-profile junior doctor suicides, Flinders University is introducing novelty into its medical degree. The Adelaide-based institution is piloting a music subject for second-year students, as part of the degree’s new, mandatory personal and professional development stream. Its coordinators hope ...

I never got to know Angel*. She would appear in my journalism class sporadically, and when she did, always sat by herself. She never spoke in class, unless spoken to by the lecturer. Then, she would reply in broken English, ...

Anthropologist Lisa Wynn talks predatory publishing and the study of love, sex and desire. What is your name, where are you based and what do you do? I’m Lisa Wynn, but I publish as L.L. Wynn, and I am an associate professor ...

New life has entered the ‘oldest scientific academy in continuous existence’. The London-based Royal Society has inducted fifty new Fellows and 10 new Foreign Members into its hallowed community for their “substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, ...

University of Sydney business students are set to rub shoulders and minds with some of the world’s most innovative thinkers. In July, a group will venture to America to immerse themselves in its startup culture. Designed in collaboration with global ...

Businesses around the globe are seeking a competitive advantage from the use of ‘big data’ – and the data scientists who can unlock its secrets are reaping the benefits of this growing demand. Nearly all key business processes and systems ...

I am a middle-class woman, aged between 40 and 59, with a postgraduate education. Except I’m not. That was a prediction of my identity, based on my cultural tastes, by a global team of researchers. They shared a sample of ...

It is very difficult to dispute the need for teachers to possess sounds literacy skills. Communication and literacy are central to teaching success and personal literacy competency is an obvious prerequisite for much of a teacher’s work. Not only do ...

Most university students simply need to pass all their subjects to graduate. Teaching students, however, have to score in the top 30 per cent of the adult population in literacy and numeracy, in addition to passing their regular exams, to earn their ...