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Student wellbeing is crucial to academic success, with students more likely to abandon their studies following distressing incidents. Here’s how the University of Sydney is creating a system for reporting trauma that is founded on human-centred design, and supports both ...

Professor Nick Klomp VC of CQU and President of the Regional University Network tells the story of the development of the only dual-sector institution in Queensland from a regional base in Rockhampton with a physical and virtual footprint around Australia and beyond.  He argues ...

Following the review of the Australian Research Council Act, the government is now seeking feedback from academics and researchers before its final report in March 2023. The consultation papers, open until mid-December, have identified nine major points to improve grant ...

Labor has pressed ahead in its redesign of the Job-ready graduates scheme, reversing fee hikes for honours students and introducing a new program to attract medical professionals into remote hospitals. Federal education minister Jason Clare introduced two new amendments to ...

Understanding how your body clock works could help to improve productivity, quality of research and overall well-being. Sydney University business professor Stefan Volk said the body clock determines when people are at their best physically, mentally and emotionally, which can ...

Australia’s peak university body is calling on the government to adjust entry requirements into graduate defence roles and to fund internships and work placements for up to 100,000 international students. Universities Australia told an independent review into the nation’s defence ...

Sydney neuroscientist Glenda Halliday has always been “fascinated” by how the brain works. The University of Sydney professor, who is a world-leading expert in neurodegeneration, began her studies in the 80's and became captivated in how different chemicals in the ...

Monash University has run away with the honours in The Australian’s 2023 list of the nation’s top researchers and research institutions in 250 fields of academic endeavour. A Monash researcher was in first place in 31 of the research fields ...

Traditionally, competition between universities around the world has been based on history and achievements measured by conventional metrics. When Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Stanford dominate the top places again in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings, it illustrates the ...

A groundbreaking new study has shown how you can increase muscle growth while spending half the amount of the amount of time in the gym. The study, authored by Edith Cowan University professor Ken Nosaka, found that eccentric muscle contractions – the ...