The saying “never trust a skinny chef” has been applied to academia by education entrepreneur Mat Jacobson, who said university lecturers who’ve never run a start-up should not be teaching courses in entrepreneurship. Jacobson, founder of Dūcere Global Business School, which partners with ...

University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...

California Institute of Technology has finally been knocked off its perch atop the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, after six years in the top spot. Four Australian institutions have broken into the chart for the first time, while the University of Melbourne has outdone ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert has argued La Trobe University’s reputation could be damaged by what he called the “academically irresponsible” conduct of its researchers working for the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published ...

Western Sydney University has forked out $20 million for marketing to run between 2015 and 2017. The University of New South Wales, RMIT and the University of Queensland all spent between $12.5 to $15 million, each, on their marketing in 2013. That makes the half a ...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but research into deadly diseases often doesn’t get funding because pharmaceutical companies can’t make money out of it. This includes work on cures for malaria, Ebola and the Zika virus. That’s the blunt statement from University ...

In this week’s episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review dive deep into why intensive parenting is making mums and dads miserable, investigate the crowdsourcing phenomenon shaking up Big Pharma and revel ...

The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...

The renewal of Canberra’s Mount Stromlo visitor centre demonstrates what scientists need to do to successfully communicate to the public that their research isn’t just a waste of money, an astrophysicist has said. The visitor centre’s re-emergence completes the renewal of ...