Monash University vice-chancellor professor Margaret Gardner is to be the next chair of Universities Australia (UA). Gardner is set to succeed current UA chair professor Barney Glover, who is also vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University. Gardner will take the reins ...

Dr Frederic Gilbert is a philosopher and ethicist in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He has been studying the positive and negative effects of implantable brain technologies, which are used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s disease ...

Most people with smartphones receive push notifications, whether they be for Facebook, news alerts or even messages from dating apps. And according to Brent Stafford, director of the Asia Pacific branch of HERE, a map software developing company, universities could ...

New South Wales’ 11 universities, TAFE NSW and the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) have collaborated in a mission to produce innovative graduates. SSE chief executive Nick Kaye described it as, "a larger common platform, reaching for common goals. I ...

Dr Daniel Skorich is a psychology researcher at the University of Queensland. He has been researching autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and has published a paper that shows the relationship between clusters of social interaction characteristics that were previously thought to ...

The ABC’s Fact Check unit has returned, with the help of RMIT University, to ensure the facts that public figures cite are not ‘alternative’ but plain old truth. From March, the RMIT ABC Fact Check will do what it did ...

In Australian universities, student engagement in university decision-making is patchy. That’s how the University of Technology Sydney’s professor Sally Varnham describes it, and that’s what she hopes to change after her report to the federal Department of Education is published. ...

Online private tutoring company YourTutor has expanded to the UK, beginning with a trial at the University of East London (UEL). The company has doubled in size over the past two years and seeks to continue profitable expansion in the ...

The Australian National University aims to “reflect society in all its diversity” and to engage more closely with business under a new strategic plan announced by vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt. Outlining the plan to 1000 ANU staff on Thursday 9 ...

The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...