Imagine you are at least halfway through your degree (93 per cent for me) and your university decides to spring on you that you now have to complete another hurdle before you are allowed to graduate. Not work. Graduate. Well ...

In a world that talks of 'obesity epidemics' and 'global connectedness', hundreds of millions struggle each day to get enough food to survive. For more than 800 million people on our planet, much of their daily life and what energy ...

With an ageing and growing population, the nursing industry has to try and keep up. The number of RNs needed is expected to hit 330,900 by 2023, up from 279,600 in 2018, leaving a shortfall of 51,300 jobs. There will also ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is an ambitious and much needed undertaking. By 2020, 460,000 people will participate in the scheme. That’s roughly one in every 40 Australians. The NDIS will give people with a disability choice and control ...

“How would you have gone if you had taken your mum to uni, Conor?” recent nursing graduate and mother Lorella McLatchey asks me. As I ponder this, I imagine sitting at the uni bar while my mother stares at me disapprovingly, ...

Teachers could be forgiven for approaching professional learning with a degree of ambivalence. With unrelenting administrative tasks, classroom teaching, preparation and marking, there is always the risk that such learning becomes an encumbrance, a “tick-the-box” registration requirement rather than the critical ...

Mei Krishnasamy has a strong Cardiff accent that belies her many years in Melbourne. The Welsh native has been living in Australia on and off since the early 2000s, and since 2016 has been the inaugural chair of cancer nursing ...

Crime shows – be they fiction or true – are some of the world’s most popular television programs, frequently devoured by a wide range of audiences. There are no shortage of options when it comes to choosing your favourite series, ...

Parents routinely roll their eyes any time a school announces a student-free professional learning day for its teachers. Many parents consider these days an inconvenience and struggle to see their purpose. High quality, continuous professional learning (as opposed to one-off, snapshot professional ...

The nursing clinical placement is an essential part of the nursing degree and is an opportunity to solidify clinical knowledge and to get real life exposure to clinical settings. For almost all students, the transition from university-based learning to the ...