Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor professor Andrew Vann has renewed his contract and will stay at the helm until 2021. For his next term, Vann said he'd ensure CSU added value to the communities it was a part of. This meant, ...

Universities Australia is calling for perspective as a new debate about uni dropouts kicks off, by pointing out that 7 out of 10 students complete their degree within nine years. This is despite the same federal Education Department data showing that ...

A leading private higher education provider has opened a new campus in the heart of Melbourne. The Australian School of Management’s new Flinders Street location will offer students a range of bachelor degrees, associate degrees and diplomas in business and ...

Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...

The University of New England has announced that prospective students will now be able to study individual undergraduate and postgraduate subjects under its new Bespoke Courses model. Announced this week, Bespoke Courses aims to cater for those who want to ...

Throughout the early twentieth century, anthropologist, biologist and zoologist Baldwin Spencer published several influential books that argued the case that Indigenous Australians were primitive and culturally inferior to the British. At the same time, he was a meticulous genealogist and ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has shown that public VET spending has declined to its lowest level in 10 years. Expenditure on education and training in Australia showed that total taxpayer spending is now at $5.7 billion, ...

Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...

The incoming chair of Group of Eight has indicated he would like to see the funding distortions affecting disciplines like veterinary science, medicine, agriculture and dentistry to be corrected. Professor Peter Høj, who is also vice-chancellor of the University of ...

New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of a study from Deakin University and Murdoch University researchers found that three-quarters of 12- to 16-year-olds prefer to read paper ...