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 ...

Would you steer a Year 6, 7 or 8 student away from 'soft' subjects like art and music to harder ones like maths and English? Intuitively, it seems that 'fluffier' subjects allow for fun and creativity alone. A new study, however, shows ...

Could February be the month of lunchboxes? Last week, the ABC published an investigation of their contents in wealthier and poorer Melbourne suburbs. While, by comparing Oreos packed in Broadmeadows to carrot sticks lovingly placed in Brighton, it invited food-shaming, ...

With most universities' summer breaks here, many international students will be hitting the beach – and the casino. That is, if a University of Tasmania report is to go by. A survey of almost 1,400 UTAS students revealed that while domestic students gambled ...