How can universities give value to students as partners, rather than as consumers? This question formed one of the major themes of the 2018 Higher Education Conference, and not just in speaker content – it was also reflected in the ...

Australian universities have increased their share of top-ten places for subject-specific performance according to new university rankings released today. The eighth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, ranks ...

In an Australian first, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) has released an interactive timeline of Australia's VET policies, programs and initiatives over the past two decades. The 20-year-snapshot of the nation's vocational training history was developed to ...

Before #Barnabye, there were two apologies from the man himself. In the first one, delivered in mid-February after his affair went public, Barnaby Joyce took "full responsibility" for the dissolution of his marriage. "I'd like to say to Natalie how deeply ...

ICT 4 Women will launch a list of the most highly regarded female tech speakers, in an effort to encourage girls into the traditionally male dominated industry. With fewer than three per cent of school girls likely to consider a career ...

A new partnership between Swinburne University and childcare operator G8 Education will aim to raise the quality of Australia's early childhood education workforce. Under the partnership, Swinburne students will have increased access to placements and employment opportunities, while G8 employees ...

The University of Wollongong's new health and wellbeing precinct will include Australia's first patient-centred health clinic to offer aged care, retirement living, research facilities and teaching programs. Details about the plan released last week confirmed that Lendlease would lead the ...

Researchers from Western Sydney University have created a game changer in the global field of electronic voice research, which will be applied to help cancer survivors. For the first time, researchers have confirmed that prosthetics can generate a high-quality human-sounding ...

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academics have rewritten sections of mathematics history by studying Indigenous mathematic systems in the Pacific. School of Teacher Education senior lecturer and researcher, Dr Kay Owens, led the study of Indigenous people in Papua New Guinea, ...

Sixteen of Australia's universities have been named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). The citation is awarded to organisations that demonstrate a commitment to achieving gender equality. The universities join a number of ...