Male koalas seeking sex get all shouty and spread out, partly to reduce competition from the other males. Bellowing seems to prevent fights between the males, as well as letting females know exactly who they are in the breeding season, ...

Finding out who is delivering foundation skills is important in order to ensure we develop a workforce capable of delivering these skills within classroom and workplace environments. “Foundation skills – which is language, literacy, numeracy, and employability skills – they ...

Meeting the needs of stakeholders formed the basis of a recent review of training organisations in New Zealand. Careerforce, that led the research project, is the Industry Training Organisation or ITO for the health and community support services sector in ...

Good, big data is the source of good decision-making in the future, Senator Simon Birmingham told delegates at a Sydney conference yesterday. Birmingham, the assistant minister for education and training, told NCVER’s No Frills conference at the University of Western Sydney ...

Changing the conversation about what successful careers can look like may be the key to solving Australia’s job skills gap, a national training conference has been told. Addressing delegates at the NCVER No Frills conference – hosted by the University ...

A few simple steps, not necessarily massive changes, are all it might take to improve the learning experience of students with disability, an expert has said. Nicole Ison, national disability co-ordination officer from the University of Western Sydney, spoke yesterday at ...

Big data’s potential to drive quality improvement across the VET sector while assisting in greater partnerships with universities and higher education providers was highlighted at a national conference in Sydney this morning. Addressing delegates at the NCVER No Frills conference ...

Northern Territory's controversial mandatory alcohol rehabilitation scheme is not cost-effective and may be discriminatory, say medical experts. The scheme costs about $27 million annually, but they say alcohol misuse could be reduced more effectively by methods such as interventions involving ...

A generous gift of $4 million will go towards establishing the Francine V. McNiff Chair in Criminology, a first for the University of Melbourne. Professor Alison Young has been appointed in this role. Young said the appointment would enable her ...

The University of Sydney has been forced to remove the credit card of outgoing Conservatorium of Music Dean professor Karl Kramer after identifying “concerns” relating to his use of it. Fairfax Media has reported that concerns were initially raised over ...