Learning outside the classroom has the educational and emotional benefits conducive for optimal learning, new La Trobe research shows. Professor Margaret Robertson, lead editor of the new book Experiencing the Outdoors: Enhancing Strategies for Wellbeing, said the findings showed students ...

Walking rather than resting after a meal could help reduce falls among older people by helping to prevent loss of blood pressure according to researchers at the University of Adelaide. Study leader, professor Renuka Visvanathan, Director of the Adelaide Geriatrics ...

Universities seeking National Health and Medical Research Council grant funding will now need to provide evidence that they have adequate gender equity staffing policies in place. Under the new measure, announced in late March, research institutions will have until the ...

In an exclusive interview, education editor Antonia Maiolo spoke with Dr Stephen Weller, who will step down as president of the Association for Tertiary Education Management in May. Maiolo asked Weller to describe some of the biggest changes he’s seen in the ...

Momentum behind efforts to develop a more refined model for measuring research impact is being fuelled by growing acknowledgement that the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) model is limited in its capacity to encourage research translation, a leading expert ...

A new classroom fitted with high-tech cameras to track students’ every move is opening at the University of Melbourne. The Science of Learning classroom, officially launching today, is part of a nationwide $16 million project to help researchers better understand how learning ...

Universities should embrace the way technology disrupts what we’re doing and take from it the best elements to improve the quality of teaching and learning, University of Western Sydney vice-chancellor Barney Glover said. In an extended interview, education editor Antonia ...

It's only a matter of time before vision-enabled robots work side by side with humans, according to world-leading researchers at Queensland University of Technology. The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at QUT and Rethink Robotics has built a machine, dubbed ...

Americans living in the Rockies stand a better chance of dodging a zombie apocalypse than their urban counterparts. Cities would fall quickly, suggests the "large-scale exact stochastic dynamical simulation of a zombie outbreak" from Cornell University in New York state. ...

Academics have warned the government it's putting critical research work at risk by tying infrastructure funding to its higher education overhaul. Top researchers, university bosses and scientists have written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott to sound the alarm that many ...