New research from Flinders University has found that during 2020 women from affluent backgrounds had higher levels of mental health complaints, compared to women of other social classes. The survey looked at 799 Australian women aged 45-64 years at two ...

Melbourne-based artist and researcher Dr Erica Tandori has enabled people with low-vision or blindness to touch, feel and experience the world of infection, immunity and nutrition in a new exhibition.  As part of Science Week 2021, Monash University’s Rossjohn lab ...

The central theme of new Netflix drama The Chair is timely and gets a lot right about racial politics in modern American academia. Smart, incisive, nicely written and acted, it’s a genuinely rewarding binge watch. As senior academic women ourselves, ...

A German University is on high alert after a suspected poisoning left students and staff turning blue, with one victim temporarily on life support. Seven people at Darmstadt Technical University were displaying symptoms of poisoning, six of whom needed hospital ...

Autism is a neurological condition affecting an estimated 150,000 Australians, with the disorder diagnosed in roughly one in 160 children. But in what could potentially be a major breakthrough, diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may one day involve a simple ...

As competition to attract the attention of prospective students intensifies, the higher education sector finds itself grappling with the question: Should every academic be required to publish research? The academic world is a major source of discovery and new ideas. ...

The ever-increasing use of technology to monitor our daily activities – from CCTV cameras on every street to social media platforms such as Facebook and TikTok acquiring user data for marketing (or more sinister) purposes – has bred in us ...

The Independent Tertiary Council Australia (ITECA) has raised concerns after a new report found declines in the number of students enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) courses in 2020, despite a multi-billion dollar skills investment.  ITECA chief executive Troy ...

One of the biggest motivations for many that work in higher education is observing and supporting its potential to transform lives.  For those first in family to experience higher education, it opens up new opportunities, and futures. It creates loyalty to ...

‘Invitations’ from Two Regimes of 1975 and 2021 The new Taliban regime (‘Taliban II’) of Afghanistan has supposedly announced that they do not intend to take revenge against their former adversaries. A news item stated that they even invited those ...