For many Australians, their new year’s resolution is a career change, a new survey has shown. Get Qualified Australia (GQA),  a recognition of prior learning (RPL) specialist, recently interviewed 1000 Australians about what they want to do with their career. ...

The University of Sydney is showing Aboriginal schoolchildren what it has to offer. Federal Education Department data reveals Indigenous enrolments at country universities far outweighs that at city counterparts, despite the fact that over the past two years, the Universities Admission Centre has recorded ...

Girl power can help solve Australia’s chronic shortage of engineers. Every year, Australia imports 12,000 engineers to fill jobs. One-quarter of these come on temporary work visas. Only 6000 are graduates from Australian universities. This trend has gone on for the ...

Quality over quantity is professor Brian Schmidt’s vision for the Australian National University. The Nobel Laureate and astrophysicist took the reins as vice-chancellor of ANU at the beginning of this year, promising to “take a great university and make it better”. For Schmidt, this ...

Mandatory ‘back doors’ into secure, encrypted data could compromise university research worldwide, a cybersecurity expert has warned. US and UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been pushing for all encrypted data to have a back door that government can ...

“It’s going to be fun.” That’s Box Hill Institute chief executive Norman Gray’s description of revitalising a mothballed Melbourne TAFE campus that’s set to reopen next month. Lilydale was shut down three years ago after the former Victorian government cut ...

Job hunting is notoriously frustrating, and the findings of a recent survey show it’s worse for graduates with a disability. The preliminary findings of Graduate Careers Australia’s 2015 Australian Graduate Survey reveal 43.8 per cent of graduates with a disability ...

Curtin University researchers got a late Christmas present from the heavens, recovering a meteorite from outback South Australia on New Year’s Eve. Planetary geologist professor Phil Bland had to dig the meteorite out of a 42cm-deep hole in the salt bed of Lake Eyre ...

James Cook University researchers have discovered that sex sells – even for mosquitoes. Brian Johnson, senior research officer at JCU’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and JCU professor Scott Ritchie, dengue fever expert, have set out to make a cheap ...

Pilot education is beginning the year on a high at the University of New South Wales, which became the first university to be an accredited flight training operator. UNSW has received the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s tick of approval to teach ...