Universities Australia has signed an agreement continuing collaboration with its Japanese counterpart. The Memorandum of Understanding between Universities Australia and Japan Association of National Universities builds on consecutive agreements signed since 1992, and aims to tighten university links between the two nations. ...

Nobel Prize-winning gastroenterologist Professor Barry Marshall says he is honoured to have a science library at University of Western Australia named after him. Marshall, who in 1982 identified a bacteria linked to chronic gastritis and stomach ulcers with colleague Dr ...

The University of Southern Queensland has established a $15 million fund to help students cope with university expenses. The USQ Student Endowment Fund (USEF) will pay for university bursaries and scholarships that help students meet costs HECS doesn't cover. USQ ...

Labor has slammed the Abbott Government for the large decline in apprentices since its election in September 2013. New figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research show apprentices in training in September 2013 totalled 417,700. This is compared with ...

The presentation of the 4th annual Association for Tertiary Education Management/Campus Review awards gave the spotlight to key performers in tertiary education management. The event was part of the Tertiary Education Management Conference. Professionals all across the higher education sector earned ATEM ...

A new course is set to help war veterans transition back into civilian life, giving them the skills they need to move into non-military employment. The Skills Training and Reintegration Initiative for Veterans Education (STRIVE) program is believed to be ...

Students from disadvantaged groups have a lower university completion rate than the national average, new research has found. According to the latest Joining the Dots research briefing released by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) low SES students are ...

The Wangaratta Regional Study Centre, a collaboration between Charles Sturt University and Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE (GOTAFE) to improve participation in education, will be officially opened tomorrow. Construction of the $7.2 million the centre was completed in late 2014 ...

The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and the BHP Billiton Foundation have joined forces in launching a national program to recruit more girls into mathematics. Choose Maths, which was launched this week at The University of Melbourne, begins with a ...