Researchers are excited at the prospect of using Australia’s first supercomputer The Australian National University will be home to the nation’s first supercomputer, which will provide much greater computational services to the research community. The petascale supercomputer will be used ...

Who loses out if governments only fund apprenticeships and diplomas Should VET drop all other programs except apprenticeships and feeder programs for higher education? A focus on apprenticeships was promoted recently by politicians in both Victoria and Queensland, when they ...

Cairns molecular biologist Dr Rob Walker is working with an international research team to develop a vaccine to prevent cats from infecting humans with dangerous parasites.   The James Cook University scientist is focusing his research on Toxoplasma gondii, a ...

Could robots be the football champions of the future? Forget Rooney, Ronaldo and Pirlo, a new breed of champion “footballers” has arrived and, who knows, it could be just the thing for Australia’s A-league. Bolts, Nuts and Sparksy from Plymouth ...

The University of Canberra has been cleared of any wrongdoing following an independent inquiry into allegations of “soft-marking” of international students. The inquiry, led by retired University of New England senior academic Professor Graham Webb, was set up to examine ...

An Adelaide Uni professor says we will have nuclear power in 18 years but a colleague begs to differ. Antonia Maiolo reports.   A leading climate scientist from the University of Adelaide says Australia will rely on nuclear power for ...

The Victorian TAFE Association, the National Tertiary Education Union and community groups are fighting hard to get the Victorian government to reverse its decision to cut up to $300 million from the TAFE budget. While the Victorian government has set ...

A huge fossilised collection of prehistoric animals in Queensland, including giant wombat-like marsupials, may explain how they came to be extinct, scientists say. Queensland Museum and Griffith University palaeontologists, working with Outback Gondwana Foundation (OGF) volunteers, made the find near ...

With enterprise agreements at universities around the country expiring on June 30, the National Tertiary Education Union has said it plans to target the increasing casualisation of the academic workforce in its next round of bargaining. NTEU research has shown ...

The only Australian woman to have been awarded a Nobel prize says governments must maximise educational opportunities for children to stop the decline in students studying science at university. Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, a molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel ...