Most people with smartphones receive push notifications, whether they be for Facebook, news alerts or even messages from dating apps. And according to Brent Stafford, director of the Asia Pacific branch of HERE, a map software developing company, universities could ...

New South Wales’ 11 universities, TAFE NSW and the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) have collaborated in a mission to produce innovative graduates. SSE chief executive Nick Kaye described it as, "a larger common platform, reaching for common goals. I ...

The ABC’s Fact Check unit has returned, with the help of RMIT University, to ensure the facts that public figures cite are not ‘alternative’ but plain old truth. From March, the RMIT ABC Fact Check will do what it did ...

Online private tutoring company YourTutor has expanded to the UK, beginning with a trial at the University of East London (UEL). The company has doubled in size over the past two years and seeks to continue profitable expansion in the ...

While Newcastle electrical engineer Ken Morley and his family were touring Hangzhou, China, in 1980, they met 15-year-old Jack Ma. Morely became his friend and mentor. He challenged many of Ma’s views and helped him develop a global perspective in ...

At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...

The Australian private tutoring industry has now been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came ...

The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021, and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund. Allan Tait, UniMelb chief financial ...

For entrepreneur Bevis Cheng, failure is much more interesting than success. “It really shapes the way you think about things, the way you approach things, what you could do differently, what you could do better,” Cheng says. “I mean everybody ...

Hill headed  for ECU Professor Angela Hill will soon join Edith Cowan University from James Cook University where her most recent appointment has been dean of learning, teaching and student engagement. ECU says Hill’s portfolio will encompass the Centre for ...