One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has found. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...

The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...

The stroke of a keyboard is all it takes for the University of Melbourne to detect ghost-written essays under a new anti-cheating system the institution is trialing. Cadmus, developed by UniMelb alumni turned entrepreneurs Herk Kailis and Robbie Russo, is a ...

The head of the TAFE chairs' lobby group is “probably not” confident renewed funding and federal policy stability will flow into vocational education by the end of the year. TAFE Chairs Australia is calling on the federal government to guarantee ...

The University of Technology Sydney has developed Australia’s first scholarship program for North Koreans who have fled to South Korea. About $200,000 has been set aside for five students to learn English through UTS:INSEARCH, the university’s pathways program. The students get tuition for ...

If you had access to a nation-spanning network of cameras and drones, how would you use it? For one Australian National University scientist, the answer is to spy on trees. Dr Tim Brown, research fellow at ANU, has helped launch ...