Australia's third oldest tertiary institution brings more than education to its communities, a new report finds. An economic impact study provides that Federation University contributes over $230 million in real GDP to its rural Victorian bases. Conducted by the Nous Group together ...

The Group of Eight (Go8) cares about how students live. It has just signed a three-year collaboration agreement with the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) to address this concern. “We are particularly concerned about the cost of living during ...

We know leafy greens are an essential part of a balanced diet, but what about fuzzy ones? An international team of scientists, including ones from the University of Adelaide, are investigating this. In particular, they're examining whether moss could, among other things, aid ...

Most university students simply need to pass all their subjects to graduate. Teaching students, however, have to score in the top 30 per cent of the adult population in literacy and numeracy, in addition to passing their regular exams, to earn their ...

This year, Harvard admitted a record high 20.3 per cent of students from modest or low-income backgrounds. Also, for the first time in a decade, a majority (50.1 per cent) of its admissions were female. There’s even an argument it's becoming so diverse it's ...

'Work smarter, not harder' may be a hackneyed adage, but the University of Melbourne is putting it to use. It has developed Write Smarter: Feel Better - a mental health and productivity program for graduate research students. By offering communal writing sessions ...

"Most importantly this report highlights there is no silver bullet...," Education Minister Simon Birmingham declared. By this, he meant there is no magic fix-all to the metropolitan/rural education standards gap, as proven by Emeritus Professor Dr John Halsey's newly-published report ...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs dictates that there are baseline necessities for human satisfaction. Food, shelter and relationships are most critical. Then there's self-esteem, and, if you're lucky, self-actualisation: the fulfillment of one's potential. But happiness isn't as simple as scaling a ...

In an Australian-first, Group of Eight universities will investigate and publish the extent to which PhD students contribute to the nation. The three year project, dubbed Understanding PhD Career Pathways, will survey more than 200,000 PhD graduates and provide information ...

The bin chicken, or Australian white ibis, as it's less commonly known, isn't only hungering for your spare fries. Researchers from the University of Wollongong, the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, and the Australian Museum have found that their migratory patterns are ...