Young Queensland apprentices in nearly 140 high-demand jobs will have their training costs paid by the state government under a $32 million job creation program. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk urged businesses to take on more apprentices and trainees, with a promise ...

POLLIES PAIR Joining the University of South Australia as business school industry professors are Christopher Pyne, the former federal minister for defence, and Jay Weatherill (pictured), the state’s former premier. Professor Marie Wilson, pro-vice-chancellor of business and law, said Pyne ...

Julie Bishop will become the first female chancellor of Australian National University, it has been announced. The former foreign minister will take over from Gareth Evans – also an ex-parliamentarian – who has been chancellor since 2010. Bishop has taken ...

Melbourne is still Australia’s best student city, if a global higher education consultancy ranking is to go by. Quacquarelli Symonds put Melbourne behind only London and Tokyo on the latest instalment of its list of best student cities. Amid public ...

A child who once struggled with literacy now reads to her younger brother. Music lifts the spirits of a woman living with dementia. The daughter of a woman who survived cervical cancer knows she will never inheret the disease. These ...

A student might be offered little more than a raised brow when asking their careers adviser about the skills they need to become a nostalgist or cyborg psychologist but those are some of the jobs Australian researchers say might exist ...

A Swinburne University student adviser has been swamped with offers to help look after four chickens he adopted for one of the student residences. Civil engineering and business student Trent Williams set up the ‘Res Pets’ initiative to help foster ...

Our two-million-year-old ancestors continually breastfed infants from birth until they were about one year old, an analysis of teeth has revealed. Led by Southern Cross University and Monash University, the international team behind the study looked at teeth from Australopithecus ...

Six Australian universities have secured a top 100 ranking in The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings for 2019 – doubling its representation since last year. The University of Melbourne was Australia’s highest ranked institution this year, coming in equal ...

“I did it, but…” Teachers hear this phrase a lot when asking students to hand in their homework, but perhaps it’ll be said a little less thanks to a new Deakin University project. Engineers designed a smart school bag that ...