University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli and colleagues found that principals who set clear ...

Academic recalcitrance and institutional rivalry could kill the joint University of Melbourne-Monash University commercialisation fund for biomedical research before it even properly begins, one of the brains behind the program has warned. Monash and UniMelb are rivals in the battle ...

With endless announcements about new multimillion-dollar STEM facilities opening at Australian universities, arts education has finally received some love. It’s $6.5 million worth of love in fact – the price tag of the University of Melbourne’s new arts education facility. ...

A university think tank wants the soft skills of schoolchildren to be measured, including critical thinking ability, work ethic and sense of community responsibility. The report Education data: Harnessing the potential, from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute, states that these attributes should ...

A new survey has found traditional approaches to international student recruitment are no longer relevant in the modern global education market. The Hobsons Australia’s International Student Survey 2016 shows Australian universities need to move away from targeting student ‘markets’ that are broadly ...

It’s not just the university executives who want to change their institutions’ business models; the rank-and-file academics want to do so, too. But they’re hampered by cumbersome university infrastructure that slows the pace of change to a crawl, an expert ...

Enforcement of the 38-hour working week and providing two days a week of subsidised childcare for all parents are among a series of workforce recommendations made by a national network of public policy experts from 16 universities. These recommendations, tabled ...

An education technologist has argued that the biggest threat to any university isn’t its rival down the road, nor even the one in the neighbouring state or country; it’s the ones that universities don’t actually consider competitors. Simon Eassom, global manager of the ...

The AFL’s Geelong Cats are coming off a loss at the MCG, but they hope to have an edge there next time. Deakin University has built an $8.4 million sports precinct that includes a Melbourne Cricket Ground-sized oval specifically built for the Cats’ training. ...

STEM education is the Australian Academy of Science’s number one election priority, as per a policy statement released yesterday. Unveiled by academy president professor Andrew Holmes during a speech in Canberra, the group of distinguished scientists’ objectives include getting Australian schools’ students into the ...