Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...

Creating new words is an unpredictable business. How was Lewis Carroll to know that amongst the brillig, gimble and uffish of “Jabberwocky”, chortle would gain popular acceptance? Did we really need a new term for laughing? Advertising agency McCann thought ...

Curtin University executives and researchers may soon be teaching classes, as an internal email revealed 100 to 150 teaching staff across the university will be cut. And in an email to his staff at the Faculty of Humanities, pro vice-chancellor ...

The University of Technology Sydney has become the first university to sign SANE Australia’s charter, pledging to improve mental health among staff and students. At the end of October, UTS signed the SANE Australia Mindful Employer Charter. This is a promise to ...

Gender inequity will exacerbate shortages in the mathematical workforce caused by an ageing population, a new report from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has warned. AMSI director professor Geoff Prince has quoted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that show ...

PhD researches FOOTBALL, and plays it A PhD student from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, whose work could benefit football players, has been selected to play for Carlton in the first AFL Women’s League draft. Kate Gillespie-Jones was picked 14th among the ...

An international hotel advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald invites readers to get luxed on a stopover in Singapore. Those old enough to remember the ubiquitous bar of Lux soap might wonder if this is just an upgrade on the ...

A report from financial services company AMP has found financial stress among workers in the education sector is on par with the national average of 25 per cent – though the university casual workforce is more susceptible. AMP commissioned market ...

The unprecedented focus on published research and grants for career advancement has generated some contested issues related to who gets credit and why. It is a sad truth that in many ways an academic career today hinges simply on producing ...

Tax time can be a time of dread for many of you university staff members, as you try to sift through boxes of receipts to work out what deductions you can claim on your tax return. You aren’t alone. In fact, ...