The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education. The Regional Australia Institute’s Human Capital Index, released today and compiled ...
More »Women struggling to rise in ‘blokey’ world of economics
Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline – economics suffers similar issues. As Danielle Wood, an economist, Grattan Institute fellow and chair of the newly established Women in Economics Network, points out, women account for 35–45 per ...
More »UniSA crowdfunding research into suicide prevention, stroke recovery and feral cats
The University of South Australia is pitching its research to the people via a newly announced crowdfunding project. The research that people can contribute funding to includes a project on preventing asylum seeker suicide, a study on helping stroke survivors ...
More »CDU researcher shows self-hurting employment bias against the mentally ill
Simon Moss is an associate professor and psychologist at Charles Darwin University. He has been reviewing the bias against people with mental illnesses, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD when looking for jobs or changing careers. Some of his findings are counterintuitive, ...
More »Sinodinos rehashes government agenda on science and innovation
The federal government has repackaged and reiterated the National Innovation and Science Agenda that was announced in November 2015, with a National Science Statement delivered by Arthur Sinodinos in a keynote speech today. In his address to the National Press ...
More »Publish or perish a minor issue, research reveals
A meta-analysis of research literature has thrown into question the commonly held assumption that science exists in a culture of 'publish or perish'. Meta-assessment of bias in science, published in the journal PNAS, found “little evidence” that biases in scientific ...
More »Talking Eds episode 20: Labeling, triggering, mindfulness, pathway programs (and other neologisms)
It's time for episode 20 of Talking Eds! in this week's bumper edition the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at labeling’s adverse effect on children, whether mindfulness triggers past traumas and spar over Bond University's new pathways ...
More »How academics and corporates can learn from each other
Academia and the corporate sector are two worlds that can learn from one another. That’s the view of Dr Lesley Halliday, YourTutor’s general manager of academic services, who made the jump to a corporate career. Previously, she worked at Macquarie ...
More »Bond University College debuts to suit new cohort of heterogeneous would-be uni students
Catherine O’Sullivan is the pro vice-chancellor for pathways and partnerships at Bond University. In this role, O’Sullivan is overseeing the launch of Bond University College, an on-campus pathway program that brings together the existing university preparation and foundation programs, diplomas ...
More »Mindfulness may trigger past trauma in students
Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their students' backgrounds and not ...
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