More dementia training is necessary in degree courses for undergraduate RNs, a dementia care leader has argued. General manager of residential services at dementia and aged-care specialist HammondCare, Angela Raguz, said some RN graduates employed in dementia-specific services had received as ...

Scientists from the Australian National University and University of Aberdeen have discovered the world’s longest known continental chain of volcanoes. Named the Cosgrove hotspot track, this chain runs 2000 kilometres from North Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands to central Victoria, and was ...

Integrating mathematics into Indigenous cultures and backgrounds is key to quality teaching, a Queensland University of Technology mathematics professor has said. Professor Tom Cooper, who is director of QUT’s YuMi Deadly Centre (YDC), which works to improve mathematics outcomes for Indigenous children, ...

International education fees dominate the income universities receive from students, a new background paper from the Grattan Institute’s Higher Education Program shows. University Fees: what students pay in deregulated markets revealed $4.3 billion of the $6 billion universities receive from ...

Universities Australia has signed an agreement continuing collaboration with its Japanese counterpart. The Memorandum of Understanding between Universities Australia and Japan Association of National Universities builds on consecutive agreements signed since 1992, and aims to tighten university links between the two nations. ...

Arts and humanities degrees are more valuable for getting graduates jobs than purely technical degrees, a humanities advocacy group has said. Statistics from Graduate Careers Australia show that rates of graduate employment have been steadily declining in recent years – decreasing ...

Nobel Prize-winning gastroenterologist Professor Barry Marshall says he is honoured to have a science library at University of Western Australia named after him. Marshall, who in 1982 identified a bacteria linked to chronic gastritis and stomach ulcers with colleague Dr ...