The top public servant in New South Wales refugee resettlement and recently re-installed Western Sydney University chancellor said the 20 per cent federal government cut to universities would not impede his institution’s efforts to give refugees accessible higher education. Professor Peter Shergold, ...

Can computers solve some of the world’s deadliest diseases? That’s the big question one computer scientist is aiming to solve. Associate professor Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne expert in computational bioscience, argues computers can help cure illnesses by simply sifting ...

While Australia has performed solidly in this year’s Times Higher Education rankings of universities aged under 50 – the mastermind behind the list warns Australia’s performance could slip drastically if it doesn’t match the level of investment of its East ...

A mid-term review of the federal government’s five-year skills plan – implemented by federal Labor in 2012 – has concluded that TAFE shouldn’t be deemed ‘just another provider’ within the VET sector. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) commissioned ACIL Allen's Review ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council must lobby government for funding to properly support human medical research ethics committees, an internationally renowned expert has argued. Professor Linda Shields, American Academy of Nursing fellow and Charles Sturt University nursing academic, ...

TAFE Queensland has broken into the applied research sector with a new centre and indicates a future push into formal research – traditionally the domain of universities. TAFE QLD’s RedSpace Centre for Applied Research and Innovation partners with local small ...

Another round of job cuts and changes to enterprise agreements at TAFE New South Wales have been foreshadowed ahead of the new managing director’s modernisation push. Jon Black, who stepped into the role in December last year, told Campus Review the ...

A new curriculum resource has been released to help high school teachers learn how to prevent gender-based violence. Connect with Respect: Preventing gender-based violence in schools, authored by University of Melbourne education experts – and supported by various United Nations agencies ...

Research in conservation and biodiversity is occurring more in countries that need it the least, a study has concluded. The international research team behind "Conservation Research is not Happening Where it is Most Needed", measured the global distribution of academic ...

Federal Labor has rejected the Grattan Institute’s call to lower the HELP repayment threshold to $42,000.   HELP for the future: fairer repayment of student debt, argued for the threshold to be lowered from $54,126 to $42,000 in order to curb ballooning debt from ...