Two higher education policy heavyweights have found unlikely common ground. HECS architect Bruce Chapman and the Grattan Institute’s Andrew Norton have agreed that the tertiary student loan threshold could be lowered. Norton, Grattan Institute higher education program director, is pushing ...

Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel has jokingly cited his having “being born with the science gene” as a key factor behind his election as a fellow by the Australian Academy of Science. AAS’s election citation – released with a list ...

Brain scientists have isolated 74 genes linked to high educational attainment, though they say getting top marks may simply be a by-product. The research, published in the journal Nature, found these genes have a role in the brain’s development of neurons ...

Dropbox has expanded its business-to-business branch, launching Dropbox Education. Charlie Wood, country manager of Dropbox Australia and New Zealand, said, overall, this product is similar to Dropbox Business, there are tweaks to attract education staff to the product. “Dropbox Education ...

You can’t measure creativity, nor the soft skills needed to thrive in jobs and tertiary education, so education should end its obsession with measurement and ranking, a senior educator has argued. Meredith Melville-Jones, director of Sydney’s Bradfield Senior College, said ...

A total of 3300 residences, with an estimated value of $1.7 billion, are set to be built by the University of Canberra on campus property within the next two decades. It's part of an ambitious project aimed at re-imagining how a ...