Australia’s higher education sector is facing significant structural changes on multiple fronts. New student demographics, technological advances, the need to partner and collaborate with industry and funding reductions are permeating the competitive sector, and in response, we’re seeing campuses around ...

The Brazilian Amazon lost 1,698 square kilometres of its vegetation cover in August, an area 222 per cent higher than the deforestation recorded in the same month in 2018, data released by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows. ...

Former James Cook University professor Peter Ridd will line his pockets with $1.2 million from his former employer’s coffers should it decide not to appeal the Federal Court ruling. The marine scientist was dismissed by JCU in May last year. ...

National apprentice and trainee commencements (trade and non-trade) increased to 55,680 in the March 2019 quarter, up 2.2 per cent on the same period last year. Published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the latest report, Apprentices and trainees ...

A Canadian university is capitalising on the country’s decision to legalise cannabis, offering an online course on the plant’s production. The University of Guelph course is targeted towards both commercial and home growers – and, with 60 students already enrolled, ...

Australia will have an extra 100,000 technology jobs in five years time, as the digital sector ramps up its contribution to economic growth. But local IT graduates and skilled migrants alone aren’t expected to meet the rising demand for technology ...

School boys’ writing standards have slipped again: Year Nine boys now write on average at a Year Seven level. It’s looking like an Australian education crisis, though not a new one. It is worth noting, girls’ writing has been slipping ...

How do you make a toad’s genome exciting? How do you convince researchers to increase their media footprint? And how – the eternal question – do you inspire people to send more dollars your way? These are the predicaments that the ...

Youth may well be wasted on the young, but not when it comes to exerting influence on the higher education sector. As we prepare to enter the 2020s – poised to embrace the emerging technologies and innovations that a new ...

A University of Idaho panel has backed a journalism professor’s dismissal but skirted around an alert text the institution sent to students warning that she told police she used meth and had access to firearms. Denise Bennett was put on ...