Despite the fact that people with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, over a fifth of employers that claim they're open to more inclusive hiring practices aren't following through. While 79 per cent say they would hire someone with a ...

Who Put the Post in Postcolonial?" A 1998 review bearing this title was published in the journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Its author, Chadwick Allen, an American English professor, begins by interrogating the various scholarly iterations of the term 'postcolonial'. There's ...

Malala's bestie is everything you would think she would be. Oxford University student. Activist. Vlogger. Zimbabwean-born Varaidzo Kativhu aka Miss Varz, 20, from Birmingham in the UK is using her social media capital to try to increase diversity at her ...

Would you rescind an award if the recipient included 'racy' photographs in a presentation? The Herpetologists’ League would. The American society of amphibian and reptile researchers revoked renown turtle researcher Richard Vogt's Distinguished Herpetologist award. This followed an audience outcry, largely on Twitter, for ...

The oldest university college in Australia is also one consistently rocked by scandal. St Paul's at USYD, a 200 resident, 'liberal Anglican' all-male establishment suffered its latest public indignity in May this year, when the following post appeared on a ‘St ...

To reach their full potential, Australian universities must take advantage of one of their greatest assets. By Jan Thomas There’s no shortage of commentators giving advice to Australian universities these days. This, of course, is not surprising given the importance ...

A study casts doubt on the belief that students from disadvantaged backgrounds use up more resources at university. Recent research at La Trobe University’s Equity and Student Services Division questions whether the current costs of educating low socio-economic status (SES) students are higher than for their peers.  Over ...