The Australian National University aims to “reflect society in all its diversity” and to engage more closely with business under a new strategic plan announced by vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt. Outlining the plan to 1000 ANU staff on Thursday 9 ...

The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...

The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...

Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection. He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical ...

The Mitchell Institute’s Peter Noonan has warned that VET needs to stop being conflated with apprenticeships as it could cause overinvestment in declining industries. Noonan said that falling apprenticeship numbers aren’t the main problem in VET, as this is partly ...

Despite the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries by US President Donald Trump being overturned by a federal court decision, and the decision being upheld against an appeal by the White House, there remains the real possibility that Trump will ...

At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...

The experienced Shiva Kumar is an expert in a strategic position at LinkedIn Australia and New Zealand, where he is focused on providing specialised leadership in communication, whilst being passionate about the successful use of creative expression in excellent job applications. Unlike ...

The Australian private tutoring industry has now been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came ...

Restoring the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program and including sub-degree loans in the demand-driven system are two of the priorities for the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group’s new chair, professor Colin Stirling. This puts the IRU – a network ...