Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan is visiting both Malaysia and India with the aim of creating new job and business opportunities for Australians in the education sector. “Strengthening Australia’s relationship with other countries will benefit our education system with flow-on ...

It’s commonly known that teaching is a feminised profession, particularly in the primary years. In fact, a University of Tasmania study found that male teachers accounted for a mere 18 per cent of primary school teachers, down from 30 per cent in ...

Funding is the lifeblood of academic research and the Australian Research Council (ARC) late last week announced the Linkage Project grants, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards and the Future Fellowship grants. Monash University and the University of Melbourne were awarded ...

Syracuse University in the US has suspended the social activities of its fraternities following a string of racist and anti-Semitic incidents. The move follows student protests over concerns of inaction regarding a slew of reports of racist comments and graffiti. ...

A piece of skin about the size of a thumbnail can be printed in less than a minute, scientists in Singapore say – a game-changing step for the future of non-animal testing for cosmetics and other products. Made up of skin ...

Universities across Australia are being targeted by cybercriminals more and more to gain access to private information. The recent attack on the Australian National University (ANU), which resulted in data and credential theft from the compromise of ANU’s network infrastructure, ...

A new report is calling for urgent action to tackle the risks to human health posed by climate change. The report, written by Australian researchers and partner institutions of the 2019 MJA–Lancet Countdown report, was published today in the Medical Journal ...

Universities have agreed to take on greater responsibilities to safeguard against foreign interference through new guidelines developed with government. Among the prompts laid out in the guidelines were that universities support staff to be mindful of foreign interference risks when collaborating ...

Afghanistan will release two senior Taliban commanders and a leader of the Haqqani militant group in exchange for Australian professor Timothy Weeks and American colleague Kevin King, who were kidnapped in 2016. The government’s decision to free Anas Haqqani and ...

A new study led by Dr Jon Brodie from the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University is deeply concerned that harmful insecticides, including Imidacloprid, are damaging some of Australia’s most pristine and biodiverse waterways. ...