It’s an exciting time for the education sector and one of the reasons for this is the increasingly connected world of the classroom. Smart devices have been the backbone of the education system for some time, but this year we’ll ...

In 2017, vaccines are falsely linked to autism; homeopaths make millions of dollars from snake-oil treatments they claim can cure cancer; and Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier, heads the US Environmental Protection Agency. These facts paint a dystopian picture ...

The sandstone universities have warned that brilliant minds could be locked out of Australia because of the abolition of the 457 visa. In a letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the Group of Eight lobby group representing the Universities of Sydney, ...

Humans can get back their competitive advantage by focusing on the arts. For some time now, the dominant voice across Australia has despaired at the country’s lack of standardised knowledge when it comes to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). ...

From warzone to ward assistant: a former soldier sets his sights on a nursing career. In combat, just like in a hospital emergency department, you never know what is going to come through the door, and you must always be ...

Effective online education doesn’t involve simply uploading a document onto cyberspace, Adam Brimo, the chief executive of educational technology start-up OpenLearning, has said. Speaking about a new partnership his company signed with the University of New South Wales, Brimo said: ...

Professor Jane den Hollander’s review of the Australian excursion to India is of great optimism and vigour, with no disappointments from the trip. Of the many new deals – forged by politicians and vice-chancellors – most focus on international education ...

Abena Dove isn’t your typical troublesome university student union president. As president of the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU), she describes her professional relationship with her vice-chancellor, professor Martin Bean, as “incredible". “When I say it to a room of ...

“I went to university and I hated it.” That phrase sums up the no-holds-barred approach of Dr Catherine Ball when she spoke at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology last week. Ball is chief ...

Former federal minister John Dawkins' reforms to higher education are “out of date”, as he freely admitted last year in a letter to the Group of Eight universities. However, as associate professor Julia Horne, university historian at the University of ...