Scientists need to find new ways of communicating with the public and tackling ingrained beliefs if they want their work to impact on the world we live in, a senior American scientist says. Nina Fedoroff, president of the American Association for ...

A research network to overcome negative trends affecting women researchers has been launched. The women’s research network was launched at the University of Ballarat in regional Victoria last week, with one of Australia’s leading researchers on gender in higher education the ...

Alarmed at proposed cutbacks at a high-performing University of Sydney science centre, former deputy director Guy Cox appeals for a re-think. In 1975 I joined the then Electron Microscope Unit (now the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis) at the ...

A stellar international academic career was not enough to convince the Australian science and medical community of the worth of now prominent brain surgeon Charlie Teo. Teo, whose Australia Day 2012 address was reported widely for his concern about a growing ...

Research in Australia is of high quality and our journals are respected around the world, say members of the executive of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association. Is Australian VET research of high quality? When we think about ...

Just as a round of government funding gets underway, new research looks at the growth of teaching nursing homes in Australia. The majority of the teaching nursing homes currently operating in Australia are in metropolitan areas, are large in size ...

The hard sciences have once again been the big beneficiaries from the latest round of new funding for Australian Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs). Just a fortnight after the intensive second round interviews, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator ...

Catholic men are paid 6.7 per cent more than men who reported a Protestant affiliation, according to research published in the journal  Applied Economics Letters. The study was conducted by Southern Cross University senior lecturer Dr Michael Kortt in conjunction ...

The University of New South Wales plans to offer the bulk of its intellectual property to companies for free, in an effort to turn more university research into real-world applications. The move is picking up on a global trend towards ...

The history of education helps teachers understand how curricula and educational policy are formed writes Geoffrey Sherington. Dr Brian Croke’s recent address on receiving the Wyndham Medal drew attention to the decline in the teaching of the history of education ...