Something must be done to change science’s ‘publish or perish’ culture, the chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics has said. Originally coined in the US, publish or perish refers to pressure in academia to rush research into publication to ...

Australia must acknowledge it has failed to properly build collaborative partnerships between industry and researchers in order to achieve the kinds of links needed to benefit society, a leading figure has said. Addressing delegates at the Times Higher Education World ...

Sufferers of a specific type of blood cancer could be spared gruelling chemotherapy regimes thanks to a new test developed in Queensland. The world-first tool helps predict how patients with a specific form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - known as Diffuse ...

Funding stability and a long-term outlook are key to ensuring a bright research future for Australia, a senior researcher told a conference yesterday. Speaking at the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in Melbourne, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and University of ...

Universities must be prepared to take risks, provide greater long-term employment security and back younger researchers if Australia is to successfully nurture the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, a higher education conference has been told. Speaking as part of ...

New research from the University of New South Wales has found that teenagers who smoke cannabis at least once a week are less likely to finish school, enrol in university or get a degree. The study focused on 3600 young people ...

More than 80 per cent of residents in the Ballina region oppose lethal responses to shark bites, a new University of Sydney study has shown. Researchers conducted a representative study of 500 residents in the Ballina state electorate, which includes Lennox ...

Those who sign up and complete MOOCs are getting a genuine return on their time and effort with new research indicating that almost three quarters report career benefits and nearly two thirds reporting educational benefits. An online survey of about ...

Despite tough new standards for undergraduate teaching degrees New South Wales HSC students are being encouraged to consider a career in teaching. Adrian Piccoli, New South Wales education minister wants high achieving HSC students to consider becoming a teacher. But ...

An Australian National University defence policy expert is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reconfigure national defence priorities closer to home. Dr John Blaxland, senior fellow at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said what happens in the immediate ...