After almost a decade of sluggish shuffling towards a cloud-based, digitally driven operating model, Australian education providers are collectively twigging to the benefits that can accrue from giving students and staff real-time access to information and services. Chief among these ...

On Monday, ABC chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous for her supposed anti-Liberal bias, she provoked the opposite kind of ire by asking for people’s “…stories about living ...

In August last year, in the wake of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) watershed report into sexual assault and harassment at universities, a coalition of organisations called for zero tolerance on student-research supervisor relationships, due to their innate power imbalance. Last ...

Despite the fact that people with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, over a fifth of employers that claim they’re open to more inclusive hiring practices aren’t following through. While 79 per cent say they would hire someone with a ...

Academics at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing are pushing the boundaries with their latest innovation in nurse training. As part of their Star Trek-inspired Holodeck project, Associate Professor Winslow Burleson and his team are using headsets to ...

Why do you wear all black? Why are you even still alive? It isn’t fair to us. While Australian universities grapple with isolated Islamophobic attacks, like the above-quoted one on two female Indonesian students in Canberra earlier this month, ones ...

Most future wealth – at least in Western nations – will be inherited. But billionaires still put their children in the best position to grow their fortunes by enrolling them in private or elite public schools. Bill Gates sent his three children to ...

People may as well have sung ‘Unhappy Anniversary’ to US President Trump last Sunday night. January 20 marked two years since he assumed office, and he is in the trenches. He presided over the longest government shutdown ever and suffered a humiliating defeat ...

Higher education is changing. Many commentators are questioning the relevance of the physical campus. Degrees are no longer prerequisites to work at some of the world’s biggest companies. And government funding patterns are changing. How can Australian universities remain relevant ...

What unites a Venezuelan computer scientist, a Swiss engineer, an Israeli professor and a American ‘mad scientist’? The open access movement, of course. In September, twelve European nations and two charities announced their intention to make all science research they fund ...