Notre Dame University has announced a postgraduate program to retrain teachers in mathematics after it was announced the NSW government will make maths a compulsory subject in years 11 and 12 and prospective primary school teachers will need to achieve ...

Researchers at Monash University have discovered a potential link between the way individuals walk and their likelihood of developing dementia. To put it more scientifically, the researchers were investigating “whether variability from one step to the next during walking, and ...

Preparing teachers for dealing with challenging students is one of the most important aspects of a teaching degree, but until now many courses took a more theoretical approach to the issue or relied on the exposure preservice teachers would receive ...

Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Once upon a time, having a degree – yes, any degree – was seen as a guarantee to getting into the workforce and eventually working up the ranks. You can either ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has accused the Morrison Government of sending TAFE into “oblivion” after underspending almost $1 billion in the last five years flagged for apprenticeship, skills and training initiatives. The funding shortfall appeared in a federal Department ...

A Murdoch University staff member who would prefer not to be named for legal reasons says the ABC TV 4 Corners program on international students could have a negative impact on other Australian universities’ ability to recruit from growing student markets like ...

Without engineering, nothing improves in the world. Through creativity, collaboration and determination, engineers design solutions to problems and even anticipate the problems of the future. That’s why annual events such as RMIT’s EnGenius are so important: they showcase what humanity can ...

Dr Sara James is a lecturer and cultural sociologist at La Trobe University in Melbourne and has completed research on the factors that influence students’ degree and course choices. As James’ work has found, one of the key factors influencing ...

“Lucrative” research partnerships between Australian universities and China are not only endangering academic autonomy but are also presenting a threat to our national security, according to a policy analyst interviewed on ABC TV’s 4 Corners program. “It’s clearly not in ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has “condemned” Murdoch University for suing a whistle-blower who spoke out during the controversial ABC Four Corners ‘Cash Cows’ program on international students at Australian universities Associate Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk, a senior maths and statistics ...