The federal government has launched a match-making website where companies can search all the intellectual property patents Australia’s universities and public research bodies hold. The assistant minister for innovation, Wyatt Roy, launched Source IP in late November. It was developed ...

Changes to the Youth Allowance will get more people into country universities, the Regional Universities Network has said. Ushered through Parliament last week, these changes mean all dependent children will be taken into consideration for Youth Allowance eligibility. Previously, some ...

The Australian Research Council has reiterated that its grants aren’t based on gender. Next year, the ARC plans to implement a range of measures to close research’s gender gap. This includes improving gender balance on grant selection committees, investigating options ...

Digital disruption hits traditional universities hard but good changes should outweigh bad. By Michael Hewitt-Gleeson At an accelerating rate, digital disruption has been undermining many of our traditional institutions and industries, such as banking and finance, music, transport, broadcasting, science ...

A pioneer in neuroscience credited with the critical discovery of brain stem cells 23 years ago fears a scarcity of funding could affect future breakthroughs. Professor Perry Bartlett, the founding director of the Queensland Brain Institute, lamented the fact that ...

TAFE Directors Australia has called on the government to urgently freeze funding to "high risk" vocational training providers and ban others amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the VET FEE-HELP scheme. In a statement issued on Monday morning, TDA chief executive Martin ...

The authors of a new report indicating that Australian universities are using billions in teaching revenue to subsidise research have questioned the benefit to student learning or services. The report, The Cash Nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities, released ...

Australia must seek to emulate countries such as Israel, South Korea, the UK and the US if it is to build an innovation-led economy capable of capitalising on investment in research and skills. A report released this morning by the ...

The future of university administration is in the cloud, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Australia has said. Cloud computing allows users and enterprises to store their data in third-party centres. Microsoft's James Kavanagh said the cloud streamlines the business ...

With deregulation now on the back burner until 2017, Education Minister Simon Birmingham has moved to reset the national debate on the future of higher education by releasing a summary of landmark reviews of sector dating back to 1988. Birmingham ...