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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
More »Parents misjudge kids’ weight: study
Many parents misjudge their child's weight which can result in them doing nothing to help their kids become healthy. A study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health surveyed 4437 WA based parents seeking perceptions about their children's weight. ...
More »Brain pioneer worries about future of research
A pioneer in neuroscience credited with the critical discovery of brain stem cells 23 years ago fears a scarcity of funding could affect future breakthroughs. Professor Perry Bartlett, the founding director of the Queensland Brain Institute, lamented the fact that ...
More »New VET research centre aims to get young people into jobs
Getting young people into education and employment is the main focus of a new VET research centre. The Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy, within University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, will bring together researchers to work with government ...
More »Fossilised rodent urine a critical piece of climate history puzzle
Fossilised rodent urine has helped researchers make a crucial climate discovery. Australian National University scientists have created a coherent picture of abrupt climate change at the end of the last Ice Age. During this period, Antarctica suddenly stopped warming and ...
More »Opinion: Close ERA loopholes now
Quality ratings are meaningless if the process for evaluating research is easily subverted. By Peter Drummond We try to regulate many things in modern life, and often wonder at the total perversity that results. Yet the answer is simple. Just ...
More »Labor joins push for national VET ombudsman
Labor has joined private VET’s peak body in a push for the sector to have a national ombudsman. Rod Camm, Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) chief executive, recommended the establishment of a national VET ombudsman following a ...
More »Labour, environment standards in TPP mean progress: law scholar
The fact that environmental standards are included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership at all is progress, a law expert has said. The TPP is a 12-country trade agreement with the stated goal of supporting economic growth, creating more jobs and raising ...
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