University of Tasmania has announced the appointment of associate professor Elaine Stratford as interim director for The Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment. The Centre, which carries the name of the late Tasmanian Governor Peter Underwood, is designed to evaluate ...

Overseas students are not stealing Australian jobs and for the most part intend to take their qualification home, according to new data. The survey by leading education researcher and resources provider Hobsons, aims to dispel community perceptions that international students ...

Charles Sturt University has launched a MOOC aimed at developing students’ pre-tertiary achievement levels and to explore aspects of the transition to university. CSU project manager Craig Billingham said the What's Uni Like? MOOC is being promoted to Australian universities, ...

A generous gift of $4 million will go towards establishing the Francine V. McNiff Chair in Criminology, a first for the University of Melbourne. Professor Alison Young has been appointed in this role. Young said the appointment would enable her ...

Gifted and talented school kids have taken time out of their holidays to attend university. The Holiday Enrichment Workshop Series, hosted by the University of Southern Queensland in partnership with BRAINways Education, ran over two days (June 29–30), consisting of ...

In a quest to boost Tasmania’s education outcomes and lift participation rates, the University of Tasmania today launched the Children’s University Tasmania. The project was launched today with education and training minister Jeremy Rockliff at the Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, ...

Central Queensland University and Fitzroy Basin Association are helping teachers find science education paradise in Gladstone for Science Week. Teachers from around Queensland will converge on CQUniversity Gladstone in August, for a hands-on weekend to help them bring science to ...

Monash University has partnered with the Melbourne Football Club to deliver the club’s Read Like a Demon literacy program. The program is aimed at inspiring a love of reading and to improve literacy among primary school students. It offers students ...

Refugee migrants living in regional areas face a digital divide that is creating a barrier to social inclusion within the wider Australian community, new research shows. The study, conducted by University of Southern Queensland researchers, explored the challenges refugee migrants ...

Queensland’s top science students engaged in a week-long challenge to learn about the biofuels industry, in order to support jobs for the future. Sixteen students were selected to join the Queensland University of Technology’s Process Engineering Challenge at QUT’s Mackay Renewable ...