Student nurses and midwives will be critical to assisting Australia’s recovery from COVID-19, but have gone largely unrecognised by the broader system, according to education leaders. Tracey Moroney, a professor of Nursing at the University of Wollongong, says there needs ...

It’s a learning difficulty shared by celebrated actors including Orlando Bloom, Tom Cruise, Keira Knightley and Whoopi Goldberg, and it affects one in five Australians. Dyslexia.  Talented entrepreneurs including Dick Smith and Richard Branson also have the learning disability, as ...

The reality of university life is that it is complex and diverse. Universities are often huge institutions which impact massively on social and economic life. They are far beyond being places where scholars simply search for truth and knowledge and ...

Student uncertainty and animosity regarding potential course cuts at the University of Sydney (USyd) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has escalated, with a student general meeting called by Usyd’s student representative council (SRC) on Wednesday via Zoom. Called ...

The federal minister for Education, Alan Tudge, has painted Australian education as a system in serious decline in a speech to the conservative think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS). Tudge tore into the current crop of teachers, telling ...

Kent Anderson, deputy vice-chancellor at Newcastle university, joins us soon after a two-year spell in ministers' Tehan and Tudge's office guiding recent policy changes. He comments on the divide between chancelleries and ministry that has developed in recent years, and ...

Previous Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and Hermann Muller, are acknowledged for making some of the most historic contributions in their respective scientific fields, be that physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology.  There have been female Nobel winners too, such ...

Pre-pandemic, there was already widespread acknowledgement that the traditional higher education business model was seriously outdated. 2020 represented a tipping point as all Australian universities were forced to shift to either fully remote learning or hybrid learning, a trend that ...

Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers recently completed a study exploring the extent and impact of contract cheating across the global academic community during COVID-19. Written by Associate Professor in Education Dr Jon Mason and Senior Business Law Lecturer Dr Guzyal ...

In this episode, Professor Jennifer Whyte of the University of Sydney joins the HEDx podcast to reflect on culture, leadership and partnerships as an Australian Head of School in a Go8 compared to her experiences at Imperial College in the ...