Last week we celebrated the Prime Minister’s Award for Science, an important time to acknowledge Australian scientific work that has promising applications or has changed the world. And this year, women took out the majority of the awards. This year’s ...

Very few people can say they’re ‘the best in the world’ at anything, but for Charles Sturt University Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharynne McLeod, that’s exactly the case. A year after being named Australia’s leading researcher in her ...

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields From my own university experience, I figured Fields’ quote made a lot of sense: those who perform well ...

In a coup for female scientists, UNSW’s Professor Martina Stenzel is the first woman to receive the Royal Society of NSW’s Liversidge Medal, a prestigious chemistry prize. Stenzel is a world expert in new polymer architectures used to create “smart ...

Although many universities are no longer the elitist institutions they may have once been, there is little doubt that for some students – particularly those from disadvantaged or “equity” backgrounds – they still present a rigid “framework” that can detrimentally affect their ...

Australian Catholic University (ACU) senior researcher Douglas Russell was part of a collaborative team of researchers who found students who are less honest potentially expect higher grades, regardless of their efforts. Termed ‘Academic entitlement’, it refers to students who believe ...

The latest Grattan Institute report , ‘Risks and rewards: when is vocational education a good alternative to higher education? found that men who scored lower ATARs at school but gained vocational qualifications in engineering, construction and commerce could have higher average earnings than ...

As we celebrate The International Year of Indigenous Languages, it is encouraging to see the latest figures released by Victoria’s Education Department. They show an 8000 per cent improvement in the number of Victorian students studying an Aboriginal language* between ...

Everyone in academia can empathise with that feeling of frustration that accompanies lengthy writing tasks, such as theses, journal chapters and edited books. Words, phrases and syntactical choices are pored over; paragraphs are experimented with, adapted and sometimes cast away; ...

We all know that being resilient is a necessary skill in life, being able to bounce back after life serves us lemons. But new research has found that it’s even more critical for communications professionals living in regional Australia. The ...