Associate Professor Robyn Brandenburg has received a Fulbright Training and Research scholarship – one of the most prestigious in the world – for her research into the effectiveness of Teacher Performance Assessments (TPA). These assessments certify whether a graduate is ...

There are calls for a new whooping cough vaccine in the next five to 10 years to protect vulnerable individuals from what experts are calling superbug strains of the condition. Researchers at UNSW believe whooping cough bacteria are “becoming smarter ...

What makes someone help a stranger? Like me, a lot of people are likely to believe it’s an innate personality trait, a sense of altruism that runs through someone, something some individuals possess but others neither practice nor understand. But ...

Thankfully we’ve come a long way since people with mental health issues – such as depression, bipolar disorder or psychosis – were locked up in large, austere institutions or subjected to barbaric treatments, including crudely performed lobotomies. With the introduction of ...

You can either listen to the podcast above or read the summary below.  An issue that kept coming back into the higher educator sector this year was the Ramsay Centre’s Western Civilisation degree and its attendant negotiations with the University of ...

Universities Australia has warned that research and development at universities cannot be neglected as strong economic challenges caused by a range of factors, including geopolitical squabbles and the China-US trade war begin to affect Australia. Universities Australia chief executive Catriona ...

Why languages become endangered and what can be done to arrest it are the driving questions behind an international conference being held at the University of Sydney between December 14 and 16. The 2019 conference – Saving the world’s endangered languages ...

Two Curtin University researchers have received more than four million dollars to tackle the prevalence of vitamin D deficiencies among Aboriginal people and identify early signs of cognitive impairment to commence early intervention. Funding for both projects was announced today ...

A UNSW academic has pointed to classroom disruption and disrespect as key causes of Australia’s poor Programme for International Assessment (PISA) results this year. Associate Professor Jihyun Lee from the school of education said PISA measures the disciplinary or disruptive ...

Severe diets, fasting, diet pills and gastric bands. These are some of the lengths people with obesity have gone to in order to lose weight and regain their health. But now there may be more effective treatments on the way, ...