Australia’s competitiveness in the future international marketplace and ability to cope with digital disruption will depend largely on the VET sector delivering STEM training to the workforce, a new report has argued. The report, The VET Era: Equipping Australia’s workforce for ...
More »Profile: Multitalented UniSA drunkorexia researcher Alissa Knight
In a new series at Campus Review, we visit with academics and researchers to discuss their studies. In our first installment, we meet a high-achieving UniSA PhD candidate who recently made headlines for groundbreaking insights into the drunkorexia phenomenon. CR: ...
More »Coalition’s $31.2m commitment to women’s STEM careers wins praise
The Coalition’s announcement on the eve of the federal election that it would commit $31.2 million to support women looking to choose and pursue STEM careers was greeted with unanimous optimism by tertiary groups and institutions, including Universities Australia. The election ...
More »Australians, world’s best to mingle at maths research hub
Some of the greatest minds in the world of mathematics will soon regularly set foot on local shores to gather, discuss, propose and expound new ideas, thanks to a partnership between the University of Melbourne and Monash University. MATRIX is ...
More »USQ takes on climate volatility
Queensland’s climate is a double-edged sword. Whilst enabling the state to develop a thriving and prosperous agriculture industry, climate change and extreme weather have been known for throwing many regions into chaos. This is why drought preparedness has been and ...
More »Australian housing costs make poor get poorer: study
A joint university study has reinforced the old adage that the 'rich get richer and the poor get poorer' by concluding that Australia’s housing affordability crisis is quickening spirals of disadvantage and advantage. Housing affordability and residential mobility as drivers of locational ...
More »Floodwater is no place for driving a car
With reports that Sydney’s Warragamba Dam may soon burst, and with parts of Victoria and Queensland bracing for storms and floods, University of New South Wales engineers have a simple message for any motorist considering driving through floodwater: don’t do it. ...
More »Hubble telescope shows expansion of cosmos is accelerating
The universe is possibly on course towards tearing itself to pieces, and a study involving Australian National University astrophysicists may have worked out why. The article, "A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant", soon-to-be published in Astrophysical ...
More »Einstein’s gravitational waves spotted again
Eureka! Again. An international team of 1000 scientists, including 43 Australian researchers from six universities, have proven Albert Einstein to be right, again, by discovering a second set of gravitational waves. These waves were detected after the collision of two ...
More »Principals directly affect exam results: study
University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli and colleagues found that principals who set clear ...
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