Caroline Mansfield is teaching teachers resilience on a global scale. The Murdoch University Associate Professor's program, the sunnily-named Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRITE), has 5,000 users and counting. Resilience - the capacity to quickly bounce back after setbacks - sounds ...

Warner Huntington III: You got into Harvard Law? Elle: What? Like it's hard? Elle Woods, the protagonist in the 2001 film Legally Blonde, would have you believe being admitted to the Ivy League - a group of eight, elite US universities - ...

The Regional Universities Network (RUN) has endorsed a move to introduce a National Regional Higher Education Strategy. Federal Independent MP for Indi Cathy McGowan put the motion before the House of Representatives recently, and while it has the support of ...

Navitas Ventures - the innovation arm of global higher education provider Navitas - has been pondering digital transformation in higher education. After realising universities, students and edtech venture founders were too, it solicited their views on the matter. "We wanted to ...

The federal government’s higher education reforms last night passed through the House of Representatives, but Labor still plans to block the bill in the Senate. Minister for education and training Simon Birmingham maintains that the reforms are essential for the ...

Reports show that Australia has one of the lowest levels of public investment in universities, and some of the highest fees in the world, but the government insists the education system is thriving. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ...

As the coastal NSW city of Newcastle reinvents itself - from manufacturing heavyweight to knowledge hub - the University of Newcastle is changing too. The notable young university is dusting off its School of Humanities and Social Sciences. "...We really need to make ourselves much ...

Virtual learning company Blackboard Inc. has designed a program that will remove language barriers for Indigenous Australians, for whom English is a second language. The education company last week announced the release of the Djambarrpuyŋu version of its Blackboard Collaborate program: an ...

Our educational institutions are failing our young people, a survey has determined. Youth career coaching firm TwoPointZero asked 1,000 Australians aged 16 to 24 a range of questions about their career aspirations and realities. They found a gulf between the two. For instance, ...

Two Australian universities are now ranked among the top 10 in the world for the employability of their graduates. The University of Sydney was placed fourth in the most recent rankings by education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds, while The University of ...