A researcher will use supercomputers to power through almost 3000 years worth of calculations in one year. Professor Richard Sandberg, a University of Melbourne aircraft engine expert, has secured the use of Swiss and US supercomputers to do the calculations needed to complete ...

Changes to the Youth Allowance will get more people into country universities, the Regional Universities Network has said. Ushered through Parliament last week, these changes mean all dependent children will be taken into consideration for Youth Allowance eligibility. Previously, some ...

The Australian Research Council has reiterated that its grants aren’t based on gender. Next year, the ARC plans to implement a range of measures to close research’s gender gap. This includes improving gender balance on grant selection committees, investigating options ...

The University of Sydney’s fundraising campaign has reached its goal of $600 million, two years ahead of schedule. With the original goal now realised, INSPIRED’s new target is $750 million by the end of 2017. Tim Dolan, USYD’s vice-principal of ...

Hard counter-terrorism responses to the Paris bombing risk neglecting de-radicalisation programs, which schools play a key role in, an expert has said. Hard responses include military action, increased securitisation, toughened legislative measures and clamping down with law enforcement. Nationals MP ...

Digital disruption hits traditional universities hard but good changes should outweigh bad. By Michael Hewitt-Gleeson At an accelerating rate, digital disruption has been undermining many of our traditional institutions and industries, such as banking and finance, music, transport, broadcasting, science ...

The University of New South Wales is set to lead the largest clinical trial into ketamine as a treatment for depression. Doctors and veterinarians use ketamine as an anesthetic. The drug is also used illicitly as a hallucinogen. A $2.1 million grant ...

Five Australian universities have been voted among the world’s best with regard to the employability of graduates in the Times Higher Education’s latest rankings metric, released overnight. Leading the way for the third year in succession was the Australian National ...

A new website may change the way universities source their casual academic staff. Federal Department of Education statistics show that in 2013, there were 69,331 casual academic staff – both acting casual and full-time equivalent – in Australian universities. Of this ...

Half of public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, making a lot of data useless. A study by Australian National University of 100 leading journals in ecology and evolution found more than 50 per cent of their studies' datasets are incomplete, ...