Tomorrow’s lawyers will be poorly trained and unable to meet Australia’s economic and social needs if the nation’s law schools aren’t better funded. Australian legal education has for the past two decades been funded on the basis of two flawed ...

Australia punches above its funding weight in science research Natasha Egan finds as she looks at faculties across the country are faring Science enrolments are up, not enough students are doing maths, there are challenges around student teacher ratios, all ...

Minerals engineering research gets a boost as efforts continue to increase overall graduate numbers in the associated disciplines While statistics from the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) show a growing number of students completing degrees in engineering, ...

Researchers today have the understanding and technologies to investigate life at all levels. Medical imaging, genomics, structural biology, integrated biological systems, bioinformatics and health informatics are providing powerful and versatile tools for researchers to investigate the structure and interaction of ...

Health science faculties have strong reputations for meeting the demand for health care professionals with high-quality graduates. Some are worried that research funding cuts might make meeting that demand more difficult. At a time when health care needs are growing ...

Universities already have programs in place to prepare students for jobs but employers have to also play their part writes Natasha Egan. Universities are meant to give students a broad range of skills, not specific elements related to individual jobs, ...

Far too few women are considering a potential career path in science, writes Annie May. It has been predicted that this year Australia faces a shortage of 20,000 scientists and engineers, and many other countries across the world are faring ...

Government report calls for measures to boost enrolment in engineering degrees A continuing shortage of engineers means companies have to compete in the global market for skilled engineering professionals for a higher price, a report from the Australian National Engineering ...

Curricula across universities are changing fast to keep pace with new platforms Hundreds of first-year science students at the University of Adelaide will be given a free Apple iPad as the campus becomes the first in Australia to develop a ...

A move to postgraduate law degrees has opened up a battleground over fees. By John Ross. The juris doctor (JD) – a US-style masters-level law degree – has come in for some flak over naming rights, with critics claiming it ...