Despite the fact that people with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, over a fifth of employers that claim they're open to more inclusive hiring practices aren't following through. While 79 per cent say they would hire someone with a ...

Scroll through university social media for long enough and you will come across numerous dog posts. Whether it's a pooch 'getting ahead' on his readings for the upcoming semester at UQ, or UWA law school's resident sausage dog, Julius Caesar Juris Dogtor, ...

Would you steer a Year 6, 7 or 8 student away from 'soft' subjects like art and music to harder ones like maths and English? Intuitively, it seems that 'fluffier' subjects allow for fun and creativity alone. A new study, however, shows ...

While the nation awaits future policy directions on ‘post schooling’ education and training following the outcomes of the 2019 federal election, there are a number of Government initiated reviews and consultations ongoing, as well as other published independent policy proposals. ...

Academics at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing are pushing the boundaries with their latest innovation in nurse training. As part of their Star Trek-inspired Holodeck project, Associate Professor Winslow Burleson and his team are using headsets to ...

Could February be the month of lunchboxes? Last week, the ABC published an investigation of their contents in wealthier and poorer Melbourne suburbs. While, by comparing Oreos packed in Broadmeadows to carrot sticks lovingly placed in Brighton, it invited food-shaming, ...

China’s Tsinghua University seems to be going from strength to strength, at least as far as university rankings are concerned. It nabbed the top spot on Times Higher Education’s (THE) list of Asia-Pacific universities, beating out National University of Singapore and ...

The deaths of notable figures this week might reveal a lot about the circles individuals watch most closely. The fashion-focused will be mourning the death of Karl Lagerfeld at 85. Fans of Grey Gardens will charge their glasses for one of the people behind the ...

Why do you wear all black? Why are you even still alive? It isn't fair to us. While Australian universities grapple with isolated Islamophobic attacks, like the above-quoted one on two female Indonesian students in Canberra earlier this month, ones ...

A system that takes stock of a student’s online learning activities and predicts the risk of academic failure is on the horizon. It’s part of a project that aims to curb the number of students who drop out of online courses, ...