Young tech-savvy workers are more likely to risk computer security systems than their less impulsive older colleagues, an Adelaide researcher says. A University of Adelaide study into different personality traits and computer behaviours says younger tech-savvy employees are more likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Education must learn to get better at getting better, an expert has said. In a guest lecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, professor Tony Bryk, president of the US-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said education fails ...

A study has found bullying of academic staff occurs at higher rates in regional universities than at metropolitan ones. Self-reported Harassment and Bullying in Australian Universities: explaining differences between regional, metropolitan and elite institutions surveyed 22,000 academic staff at 19 different universities, ...

Kelp is an old word for seaweed, especially for the biggest in the family, the so-called giant kelp found on the Pacific coasts of America. Over the centuries, it was used in agriculture as a fertiliser, and as a pre-industrial ...

Campus Review’s Futureproof Now conference last week focussed upon the ways university education needed to change to fit with the jobs and employment patterns of the near future. University educators were called upon to be innovative and responsive to the ...

Labor has slammed the Abbott Government for the large decline in apprentices since its election in September 2013. New figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research show apprentices in training in September 2013 totalled 417,700. This is compared with ...

Increasing proportions of sessional staff make management more complicated; the right software can help keep everything in order. The increase in sessional staff at universities and colleges is one of the most significant changes in Australia’s academic workforce from the ...

Completion rates for government-funded VET programs at Certificate I and above have declined slightly, according to fresh data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. The NCVER report, The likelihood of completing a government-funded VET program 2009–13, estimated that the ...