Australian troops will receive virtual reality (VR) resilience training before deployment provided by the University of Newcastle. The project was made possible after Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne announced $2.2 million for Associate Professors Rohan Walker and Eugene Nalivaiko to ...

A La Trobe University professor has been honoured as the first woman to receive the Prime Minister's Prize for science. Geneticist and professor Jenny Graves was presented with the coveted science prize during a dinner with the prime minister at ...

Contrary to popular thought, it's construction, not coding, that's most in-demand by employers. The 2017 Soft Skills in Demand Report, released last week, revealed this surprising fact.  Report issuer JobGetter analysed 168,000 job ads across 54 industries before reaching this ...

The federal government's proposed higher education reforms have hit a wall and failed in the senate, after the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) rejected the key elements of the controversial package yesterday. The three-senator and one MP team has effectively ruled out ...

With much fanfare, Monash recently announced it’s going clean. The Group of Eight member vowed that by 2030, all its energy will be derived from renewable sources. Additionally, it has committed to being carbon neutral by this date. This means that ...

“When I first arrived, I managed to get a job at an accommodation house welcoming new students because people thought I was nice, but in my first week I couldn’t even pick up the phone to talk to students as ...

Professor Herb W. Marsh is in good company. The educational psychologist from ACU has joined Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky as one of the most-cited researchers in the world. According to a Spanish agency funded by the European ...

An internationally renowned sustainability program from Harvard will be offered in Australia at Griffith University. The Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership Program (EESLP) will be available in Australia from March next year, and aims to help executives from across all sectors ...

Universities are increasingly looking to Indonesia for research partnerships and international study opportunities, experts say. The Australian International Education Conference, held in Hobart last week, saw professionals gather to discuss the state of the education industry, with a focus on ...

In a new initiative by Curtin University, young people will help create and then take part in new social groups to foster connections between those with autism. Dr Marita Falkmer from Curtin's Autism Research Group said teens still had a ...