Final year school students and university undergraduates are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University ...

Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture, and the sun; regulates temperature; produces hormones; stores bodily substances; and indicates medical conditions. Now, it can potentially add another role to its arsenal: ...

Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

Despite the fact that people with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, over a fifth of employers that claim they’re open to more inclusive hiring practices aren’t following through. While 79 per cent say they would hire someone with a ...

People may as well have sung ‘Unhappy Anniversary’ to US President Trump last Sunday night. January 20 marked two years since he assumed office, and he is in the trenches. He presided over the longest government shutdown ever and suffered a humiliating defeat ...

How often do I react rather than pausing and reflecting? What are the positive and negative things I do in the workplace? Can you give me feedback about my leadership style? These are examples of questions Ben Foote, chief executive ...

The American TV show Community, which aired between 2009 and 2015, humourised the experiences of community college students. The usual stereotypes – a single mother, a former drug addict, a film student – featured, yet the show gave them a depth ...

By now, you well know that the former education minster’s use of an arcane piece of legislation has caused furore among academics. Simon Birmingham’s unannounced, unexplained veto of several research grants, all conferred to humanities researchers, has raised doubts about ...

It began – as the cliché goes – with a list on a napkin. Associate Professor Inger Mewburn, director of research training at ANU and founder of blog The Thesis Whisperer, was lunching with a colleague when the discussion turned to ...

Citizens of the lucky country can no longer rely on good fortune for prosperity – they must rely on capabilities. This is the premise of a new Mitchell Institute report. “Today the question is not if we should seek to teach young ...