Sixteen is certainly sweet for two universities this enrolment season. The University of the Sunshine Coast has offered 3688 course places to prospective students – up by 16 per cent compared with last year – breaking its own record. Likewise, demand ...

More than 900 academics have called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene personally after a senior government senator rebuffed the group's recent efforts to secure release of all children remaining in onshore and offshore immigration detention. As at December 2015, it was understood that 95 ...

Researchers have developed a smart pill that may sniff out the human gut’s reaction to fibre. RMIT scientists have finished animal trials of a gas sensing pill. The pills send data about what is going inside the gut directly to ...

Nearly all applications for public research grants – 86 per cent – go unfunded. So a businessman has taken matters into his own hands to get quality research the money it needs. George Crones is founder and leader of crowdfunding ...

The word entrepreneur conjures up images of people like the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, who famously dropped out of university. But, in fact, 95 per cent of company founders have at least a bachelor degree; 45 per cent have more ...

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 ...