Contrary to popular thought, it's construction, not coding, that's most in-demand by employers. The 2017 Soft Skills in Demand Report, released last week, revealed this surprising fact.  Report issuer JobGetter analysed 168,000 job ads across 54 industries before reaching this ...

This year's Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, held at USYD, did not solely focus on education. Crucially, careers also got a look-in, as graduate jobs likely remain hard to come by. USYD's vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence AC directly tackled this ...

Newstart data from 2011 has just been released by the ABS, showing that the majority of allowance recipients don't, in fact, have degrees. Of the ones who do, however, the bureau helpfully broke down what they studied. Management and commerce graduates accounted ...

Domestic manufacturing has all but disappeared, the mining boom is long over, and jobs like IT support are increasingly being offshored. Meanwhile, innovation is in, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. So, where does this leave ...

Rihanna’s latest hit reverberated around the brick atrium of the National Innovation Centre, home to Cicada Innovations. The reason for the hip beats? 'Emerge': Cicada and government department UrbanGrowth NSW’s inaugural STEM careers expo. Backpack-clad students wandered from booth to ...

The annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey bears bad news for graduates. Released this week, it shows that while the more educated generally fare better across several social and economic outcomes, such outcomes aren’t as good as ...

Everyone has probably heard something akin to the following from a taxi/Uber driver: ‘I worked as an engineer in India and now, here in Australia, the only job I can get is as a driver.’ A newly-released ACER research briefing ...

The prime minister has expressed concern over data showing that women have fallen further behind men in the workplace, despite claims by a graduate employment group that the figures were misrepresented. A recent report from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency ...

A number of employees at Deakin University are reporting that they have been left to struggle with computer problems and dealing with such technology as video-conferencing following a restructure of information technology services. The National Tertiary Education Union said staff ...

There is strong interest from Australian researchers in UK fellowships which come with a virtual guarantee of a permanent academic position.  The University of Birmingham received nearly 1,400 applications from around the world when it advertised 50 Research Fellowships with ...