Australia’s competitiveness in the future international marketplace and ability to cope with digital disruption will depend largely on the VET sector delivering STEM training to the workforce, a new report has argued. The report, The VET Era: Equipping Australia’s workforce for ...

Mixing business, leisure and education on the same network can create challenges for network capacity. By Bruce Miller. At most higher-education institutions today, you’ll find students, faculty and staff struggling with consistently bad internet. It’s hard to believe these are places of ...

The Coalition’s announcement on the eve of the federal election that it would commit $31.2 million to support women looking to choose and pursue STEM careers was greeted with unanimous optimism by tertiary groups and institutions, including Universities Australia. The election ...

Some of the greatest minds in the world of mathematics will soon regularly set foot on local shores to gather, discuss, propose and expound new ideas, thanks to a partnership between the University of Melbourne and Monash University. MATRIX is ...

One of the leaders behind a program mentoring high school students from refugee backgrounds is marking this year’s World Refugee Week by calling for those on temporary protection visas and asylum seekers to be eligible for federal government assistance to meet ...

We are rooting out the unscrupulous operators but government must also do its bit for equitable higher education. As Labor announced its policy promising more apprenticeships through federally funded infrastructure projects, it’s important to remember that it was apprentices and ...

In its long list of recommendations to the next federal government, the Grattan Institute is calling for tougher entry standards into teacher education. Grattan school education program director Peter Goss estimated there has been roughly one review every year, for 40 ...

Federal Labor has announced an election plan that would create a new tier of higher education – one that looks strikingly similar to the college system universities absorbed 25 years ago. Shadow minister for higher education Kim Carr has announced that Labor ...

The gender imbalance in STEM fields is well documented. The need for more women in physics, engineering and computer science-related professions – for example – is being pushed by universities, industry and, in this election cycle at least, politicians. But ...

It’s not just the university executives who want to change their institutions' business models; the rank-and-file academics want to do so, too. But they’re hampered by cumbersome university infrastructure that slows the pace of change to a crawl, an expert ...