A new study has found that girls as young as four can both overcome educational disadvantage and feel empowered to participate in STEM-based activities through emphasising play-based learning. Researchers at Monash University found that girls’ “thoughts and actions are endorsed ...

News broke this week that China issued a warning to citizens intending to travel to Australia to “exercise caution” and conduct a “good risk assessment” due to racism against people of Asian descent, but Australian pundits have rejected the claims. ...

A concerning new report from the Australian National University (ANU) shows Australians are drinking more frequently than before. While anecdotal evidence of increased alcohol consumption during social isolation has existed on social media posts and rises in alcohol sales, this ...

If a newly released global ranking of universities was a game of Moksha Patam, teaching capacity and graduate employability would be Australia's snakes and relative research impact and internationalisation its ladders. Higher education consultancy QS Quacquarelli Symonds today released the ...

La Trobe University has hit back at claims that it’s “at risk of going broke in a matter of weeks”. Late last night, The Age published an article that reported the university was in dire straits – with cash reserves ...

A ‘coffee-grinds’ intervention may be useful for managing obesity and metabolic syndrome by altering the gut microbiota.

Deakin University’s vice-chancellor has flagged with staff that hundreds of positions will be slashed as the university maps out the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic. In a town hall meeting, Iain Martin said the institution would not sign up ...

The government has confirmed that the JobKeeper scheme won’t be expanded to workers who missed out, after news broke of a $60 billion forecasting error. Following the government’s announcement last week that the accounting error would see the JobKeeper package ...

Hard-hit Victorian universities will be thrown a $350 million financial lifeline by the state government to recover from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. In addition, the government will offer universities payroll tax deferrals of around $110 million, higher education ...

Perhaps no topic in recent history has garnered as much public and academic attention as COVID-19. News of this pandemic has saturated the international airwaves since it was first reported in late 2019. In its wake, life has ground to ...