A group of Bond University students have donned old school dresses to raise awareness and funds for girls’ education in West Africa. The Do it in a Dress campaign, run by Melbourne charity One Girl, is encouraging men and women ...

The education minister, Simon Birmingham, has alleged that the opponents of fee deregulation ran a scare campaign. During his address to The Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit this week, Birmingham reinforced that reform is not dead but on the backburner until ...

A quarter of Australians in their mid-20s are not engaged in full-time work, training or study – a report from the Mitchell Institute has shown. Equal opportunity in Australia 2015 examined young people’s progress through four key educational milestones, from ...

Labor and the Greens have both concluded that the findings of a Senate inquiry into the private VET sector reflect what they’ve been saying all along – that there are big problems that need to be fixed. The Senate inquiry into ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have taken one step forward in uncovering the mystery of the migraine. The underlying causes for migraines are unknown, although there are several theories. New research published in NMR in Biomedicine supports the theory ...

Research from the University of New England has found women in regional and rural Australia are more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence than those in metropolitan areas. Gina Dillon, from UNE’s school of rural medicine found from data sourced via ...

Academic integrity is the focus of a conference to be hosted by Charles Sturt University. Running from November 16 to 18, the 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity will be held at CSU’s Albury-Wodonga campus and revolves around the ...

The University of Adelaide and the Australian Research Council have launched a major new research hub focused on Australia’s copper industry. Funded by a $2.52 million ARC grant, the ARC Research Hub for Cooper-Uranium aims to test and commercialise new, safe and cost-effective ...

Recent figures from the NSW Government that show too many teachers and too few jobs are misleading, the vice-chancellor of Australian Catholic University has said. Statistics The Australian revealed on Tuesday show NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli painting a bleak picture for teacher employment, as state ...

The Australian Education Union has called on the federal education minister to fix declining entry standards for teaching courses. This comes after professor John Hattie, head of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), expressed his support for ...