Student accommodation website student.com, has predicted a boom in the Australian purpose-built student housing industry, which is woefully undersupplied. Purpose-built student accommodation refers to housing built specifically for students. Bede Moore, student.com’s head of growth and partnerships Australia, said this accommodation type ...

What’s more stressful, end-of-year university exams or a bear attack? Common sense would suggest the latter, but one educational expert has said some students find exams so nerve-racking that the stress response triggered in a test setting is similar to ...

A passion for fostering idea booms in developing countries. A curiosity for exploring how technology and education interact. These traits have led to two Australians being named 2017 Rhodes Scholars. Thomas Williamson, a University of Sydney bachelor of economics graduate, was ...

Students are among the fastest-growing demographics flocking to LinkedIn, and the social network has unveiled the top 10 skills their potential employers are seeking. LinkedIn pieced together this list by analysing all the recruitment activity on the site from January to September this year. The employment networking ...

DeakinDigital has rolled out a voice certification system, similar to those used in banks and in government, as part of an effort to stop cheats. The online tertiary educator is using ArmorVox voice verification software from security technology company Auraya ...

A report from financial services company AMP has found financial stress among workers in the education sector is on par with the national average of 25 per cent – though the university casual workforce is more susceptible. AMP commissioned market ...

The inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards were presented this week at the Australian National University, honouring the top dozen early- to mid-career Australian women researchers. The list was compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the intellectual property and science branch of ...

Australian teenagers with poor reading skills are no worse off than those with medium reading proficiency when it comes to future employment, a new study from the University of Melbourne suggests. The research, from UniMelb economists, found poor readers at ...

Adam Brimo is the chief executive of OpenLearning, an online start-up in which students can enrol for free and pay only for certification. OpenLearning recently signed a partnership with TAFE NSW's Hunter Institute to launch a new VET platform called ...

A cane toad pioneer, an innovator who developed a $100 million software program that detects stock market fraud, a researcher looking to re-engineer peptides and protein into cures for diseases, and a conservationist working to help governments to find the ...