As we approach the middle of 2019, education institutions the world over are no doubt bracing for a busy year of learning against an ever-increasing number of cyber-attacks. For many, their natural defence mechanism is to deploy new technology and ...

Contract cheating refers to students outsourcing their assessments to professional cheating services or through arrangements with friends or peers. A typical example would be a student paying for an essay which is then submitted as their own work. As classroom ...

Final year school students and university undergraduates are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University ...

Half-living, half-synthetic bio-computers will soon be able to reason and multi-task like humans, paving the way for a world where computers can help solve ‘unsolvable’ problems, if QUT researcher Associate Professor Dan Nicolau has his way. Nicolau, who recently published ...

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 ...