Australian Universities need a new approach to education, one that harnesses the enthusiasm of the next generation of students to solve society’s biggest problems, a new white paper has argued. Its authors said students who attend university because of the ...

We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to bond ...

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 ...

Over the last few years the focus on online classrooms and use of technology in further education has grown, with a rapid rise in the numbers of students wanting to study online. According to an annual report into online education ...

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 ...

Academic supervisors should not have sexual or romantic relationships with students. That’s the message to universities confirmed by new sector principles. Developed jointly by Universities Australia, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) and ...

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 ...

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 ...