“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 ...

More than 900 academics have signed a letter calling for the immediate release of asylum seeker children in onshore and offshore detention. There are 95 children in mandatory immigration detention on Nauru and 112 in closed detention facilities around Australia. Two days ...

Astronomers have found strong magnetic fields in stars are not rare, as previously thought, but common. Previously, only 5 to 10 per cent of known stars were thought to host strong magnetic fields. As such, current models of star evolution ...

Monash University has partnered with one of China’s top universities to give students the opportunity to live and study in Australia’s top trading neighbour. Under the agreement with Beijing’s Peking University, Monash bachelor of international business students are able to go ...

Refugees on temporary visas and about 29,000 asylum seekers may miss out on higher education because they are ineligible for government aid to help meet the substantial financial costs. To go to university, refugees on Temporary Protection Visas and asylum seekers must pay ...

The University of Technology Sydney is undergoing “structural and cultural change” to de-stigmatise disability and mental illness among its workforce. The Access and Inclusion Plan aims to be inclusive of all people, including those with disabilities and mental illness. UTS ...