A specialist-trained single point of contact for students and a de-identified data collection mechanism are two of the suggestions put forward in a new set of guidelines for universities to support students who report sexual assault and harassment. The guidelines, ...

A James Cook University scientist has helped discover and name a new species of dinosaur. Visiting Dutch national Jelle Wiersma, a PhD candidate at JCU, spent more than two years co-writing a paper on the skeletal remains of a dinosaur ...

Would you rescind an award if the recipient included ‘racy’ photographs in a presentation? The Herpetologists’ League would. The American society of amphibian and reptile researchers revoked renown turtle researcher Richard Vogt’s Distinguished Herpetologist award. This followed an audience outcry, largely on Twitter, for ...

UNSW Sydney has sent more subjects into a global ranking than any other Australian institution, while another took out one of the top spots. With 38 subjects ranking in the global top 100 of ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects ...

“TechnologyOne SaaS has allowed us to be more innovative, so we can remain competitive”: Stuart Hildyard, Chief Technology Officer, La Trobe University  La Trobe University Chief Technology Officer Stuart Hildyard has had a long, illustrious career in student and software ...

Competing researchers don’t usually co-author discussion papers – unless, perhaps, they’re discussing their rivalry. Such is the case with Jacob Corn and Jin-Soo Kim. On Monday, the genome editing researchers (from the University of California, Berkeley and Seoul National University respectively), ...

Geoffrey Miller is worried about academic freedoms. As a self-identified “aspie” and “nerd”, Miller has already laid out the case for us to consider the effect free speech policies can have on those academics and students who are ‘neurodivergent’ or ...

Aussie researchers have hatched a bright idea to turn clouds into giant sun shades to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. It might sound far-fetched, but scientists are refining a technique that could make clouds more reflective to ...

Personalised learning in schools is all the Gonksi-fueled rage, but what it if meant more than individualised learning plans and assessments? What if it meant mapping curricula to students’ genomes? This may sound like the plot of a sci-fi film; ...

The ancient craft of carpentry still implies hands-on working with wood, using tools such as saw, hammer and nails to join the pieces into weight-bearing structures. So the phrase software carpentry used for an advanced training course makes an odd ...