Are students sexist against female lecturers? New York University researchers Pascal Wallisch, a clinical assistant professor of psychology and Julie Cachia, an adjunct instructor in advanced psychological statistics sought to analyse this claim, made by various academics, who based them on ...

“I have no patience for people who tell me that a person with a PhD who starts a company, or goes into the public service, is a waste of a good academic researcher. “The purpose of a PhD is to ...

A study of 3,659 PhD students in Flanders, Belgium found that over a third – well above the proportion in comparison groups – were at a high risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder, especially depression. Competing work/life demands, job demands and ...

Federal Labor is warning that universities are capping the number of students they can accept because of pressure from funding cuts. Deputy opposition leader and education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek said next month’s federal budget is make-or-break and the government should ...

Skull and Bones, the secret society at Yale University, is warning of an impostor who has called some students purporting to recruit them and then asking them to complete a humiliating challenge. The campus society has figured prominently in books, ...

Scientists have pinpointed nearly 80 genes which they believe could help explain why some people are more susceptible to depression. A team of experts led by the University of Edinburgh analysed the genetic codes of 300,000 people to identify areas ...

Australia’s international student intake has already hit more than half a million for the year, new federal government figures show. By February there were 509,610 foreign students in the country, taking up enrolments in more than 540,000 courses. Education Minister ...

‘Work smarter, not harder’ may be a hackneyed adage, but the University of Melbourne is putting it to use. It has developed Write Smarter: Feel Better – a mental health and productivity program for graduate research students. By offering communal writing sessions ...

“I think a lot of people just assume confusion is absolutely a bad thing as a part of a learning process.” “Huh?,” one might reply to Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Jason Lodge. Along with his colleagues at his ...

“Most importantly this report highlights there is no silver bullet…,” Education Minister Simon Birmingham declared. By this, he meant there is no magic fix-all to the metropolitan/rural education standards gap, as proven by Emeritus Professor Dr John Halsey’s newly-published report ...