Education is big business. It’s Australia’s fourth-largest export earner and employs 8 per cent of the workforce. And the rise of the digital economy is pushing things along. Last year, Open Universities Australia recently celebrated 1 million enrolments, with 36 ...

Just a few weeks into his new role as chancellor of Monash University, Simon McKeon has been announced as the new chair of the Go8's Industry and Innovation Board. This has been established to drive "the Go8's escalating involvement in ...

Leading medical academics and community figures have invoked the ethical principles of health research to condemn asylum seeker treatment on Manus Island and Nauru, in an open letter to the prime minister. The World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, a ...

Many students and their parents have been primed to believe that completing the Higher School Certificate and obtaining the ATAR for university course entry will lead to success; however this is not always the case. With the attrition rate at ...

Except for a few outliers that have already fired up the sausage sizzles, universities around Australia are now celebrating O-Week. It's a time of tote bags bulging with free lollipops, branded legionnaires caps and prophylactics, newfound and quickly forgotten interest in spelunking, ...

International research supports a warning from the outgoing University of Canberra vice-chancellor that Australia’s universities perpetuate inequality. Earlier in February, soon-to-retire professor Stephen Parker challenged the perceived purpose of higher education in remarks made to the TJ Ryan Foundation. In his ...

A report has identified students’ lack of access to apprenticeships as the cause of a bottleneck in Australia’s fashion industry but one leading educator said the figures “have to be taken with a grain of salt”. IBISWorld's Fashion Backward: Career progression increasingly difficult ...

Claire Guiver is a third-year student at the University of New South Wales and an O-Week volunteer at the uni's Kensington campus. As several universities around Australia experience the mixture of celebratory euphoria, club sign-ups and sausage sizzles that dominates ...

Research has found that, in academia, work is life. For Academic Work/Life Balance: Challenges for theory and practice, sociologists Dr Nick Osbaldiston from James Cook University, Monash University’s Fabian Cannizzo and Christian Mauri from Murdoch University surveyed 155 early- to mid-career academics. The ...

One of the more amusing episodes in mainstream Australia politics has been vividly captured in one of the more amusing scholarly journals that will be published in 2016. Ballots and Billions: Clive Palmer's Personal Party by Dr Glenn Kefford from the ...