Sexual assault and harassment on campus isn’t just the concern of vulnerable first-years. That’s why the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), the peak body representing over 320,000 postgraduate students, has piped up. They’ve submitted 19 recommendations to the Human Rights Commission, ...

The THRUST framework is better able to support an innovative business culture than the traditional academic model of business education. Business innovation is the fundamental driver for improving the efficiency, performance and sustainability of the Australian economy. In order to ...

Esteemed doctor and academic John Dwyer has been tapped to head the proposed Murray Darling Medical School, but not everyone’s pleased about it. The idea for the school, a collaboration between Charles Sturt and La Trobe universities, has been percolating for ...

Just glance at the news headlines and you will know that cyber warfare is here, and it’s huge. It potentially cost Hillary Clinton the US election, and almost foiled Emmanuel Macron’s French presidential plans. Now, the Australian government is investing ...

Advertorial content by Malwarebytes click here for more information  The nation’s tertiary education institutions face a unique challenge when it comes to IT security. While their size means they face similar issues to those of a large business, constrained funding means ...

They were a suitably contrarian trio. Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sophie Johnston, president of the National Union of Students, and Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, graced the stage at the ...

University of Western Australia’s pro vice-chancellor (education innovation), professor Gilly Salmon, included a very modern analogy in her EduTECH presentation. “You know when you put vegetables in a blender to make a smoothie, you whiz it up, and it tastes really bad? ...

I’m not at all confident that the university or anything like its current form will be here for even 20 years. Australia has too many universities for its population. So what is the biggest shaping force in Australian higher education? ...

The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which hosts research into exotic livestock diseases, is just one facility flagged for upgrade under the government’s new National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. In it, chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel, the Roadmap’s chairman, identified nine research ...

Unlike other higher education divisions, the VET sector has largely embraced the 2017 Budget, which endows the sector with $1.56 billion worth of funds. Most of this money will be used to create 300,000 new apprenticeships in high-demand fields like ...