Charitable giving to universities in the US has reached a historic high for the second year in a row, an annual survey has found. With concerns looming in the US about funding and student loan debts, philanthropic donations reserved for student financial aid ...
More »Crossley reacts to research cuts
Dean of Science at UNSW Merlin Crossley has joined other leading experts concerned over reduced funding to research. "Across the world, Singapore, China, and even the European countries are maintaining or increasing funding to science, and have a strategy to ...
More »Robot teachers in disguise
A robot that children can teach to write has landed a Queensland University of Technology graduate a top international artificial intelligence industry award. Deanna Hood has been developing the capacity of a programmable humanoid robot to learn to write ...
More »Philanthropic funding Part 1: Changing a culture of giving
Right across the country we need to be thinking about growing philanthropy in higher education, Colin Taylor, director for alumni relations and philanthropy at the Australian National University said. “Australia has a great culture of giving to begin with. The ...
More »Encourage more girls into engineering, academic says
Schools and universities need to work together to help break down stereotypes in the portrayal of engineers and encourage more girls to enter the profession, a leading expert argues. Alex Bannigan, the manager of women in engineering at the University ...
More »Science dean warns cuts will send best overseas
A continued reduction in research dollars will force our best and brightest researchers overseas, a leading science academic warns. Professor Bruce Milthorpe, dean of science at the University of Technology, Sydney, said the cuts to research funding would reduce the ...
More »Parent relations with schools under the microscope
Feedback from parents of school aged children across the country are being sought by a researcher as part of project aimed at understanding and improving relationships between families and schools. CSU research student Kathryn Dalton is investigating how parents and ...
More »Rea: funding cuts force researchers overseas
The Abbott Government’s cuts to research and plans to deregulate university fees are already forcing our best and brightest overseas, the NTEU said today. Speaking in response to ABC reports that researchers are being forced to look overseas for work, ...
More »Dam fences could stop cane toad spread
Toad-proof fences around man-made dams could stop the spread of the toxic pests in some arid parts of Australia, scientists say. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of NSW examined the long-term control of cane ...
More »Australia gets cutting-edge microscope
The secrets of life could be revealed by a powerful new microscope, the only one of its kind in Australia. The $5 million, 3-metre-tall microscope, unveiled at Monash University in Melbourne, allows researchers to see molecular structures at very high ...
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