A massive open online course (MOOC) promises to improve understanding of dementia on a global scale. In a paper published last month in Science of Learning, a partner journal of Nature, a research team from the University of Tasmania assessed ...

Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

Times Higher Education (THE) has released the first set of subject rankings for 2019. Stanford University, the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) topped the World University Rankings 2019 by subject for business and economics, education, law and social ...

When now-Prime Minster Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal into parliament in 2017, pleading “don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you,” he made a critical error. That is, assuming he wants the Coalition to retain power at ...

It is very difficult to dispute the need for teachers to possess sounds literacy skills. Communication and literacy are central to teaching success and personal literacy competency is an obvious prerequisite for much of a teacher’s work. Not only do ...

In the wake of the dot.com bubble and the MOOC revolution, why haven’t more students taken up global online learning? Twenty years ago, at the beginning of the dot.com bubble, it seemed as though the advent of the internet would ...

We’ve all likely heard the statistics: gay, bisexual, intersex or transgender people comprise only up to 11 per cent of the Australian population, yet they are three times as likely to experience depression. One survey found almost 1 in 2 ...

With only about one in seven British universities led by a woman, Brunel’s VC says more needs to be done to fix the imbalance. Universities should change their promotion procedures to ensure that more women are considered for the sector’s ...

Life expectancy for American adults with 16 years or more of education has risen rapidly since 1990, US researchers say.  The study conducted by researchers at the University of Illiniois shows that despite advances in healthcare and increases in life ...

Despite two years of upheaval and change, and criticism from uninformed sources, the public can be sure that teacher training will remain at a high level.  The discipline of education seems to never be far from the spotlight of political ...