A one per cent investment in research and development could raise productivity and increase Australia’s revenue by $24 billion over the next decade, says Universities Australia. This means for every $1 invested in the research sector, $5 would be returned to ...

As Australian universities prepare their submissions for the 2023 round of Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), the national research evaluation framework, it is a good moment to reflect and review this thing we call ‘research’. Indeed the ERA exercise, which ...

A petition to rescind the proposal to make significant cuts to the University of Western Australia (UWA) school of social sciences has nearly reached its goal of 10,000 signatures, but whether it will have an impact remains uncertain. Earlier this ...

Go8 member The University of Adelaide may have to cut roughly 130 jobs to address the loss of international student revenue as the global pandemic and lockdowns continue.  Adelaide university’s vice-chancellor Peter Hoj invited staff to a forum yesterday to ...

Several of the higher education sector’s peak bodies and groups have welcomed the government’s wish to bring higher social and economic benefits to the country by ramping up the commercialisation of Australian research.  In a consultation paper released last week, ...

With Australia just coming out of recession, it is unsurprising that there has been a strong focus from federal and state governments on addressing unemployment levels and ensuring that our university graduates are able to find jobs.  The Australian Government’s ...

Targeted grants from La Trobe, Medibank and Optus will help La Trobe University researchers investigate ways of rapidly improving community health and wellbeing as the spectre of COVID-19 hangs over our health system. Under the “Rapid Response Research” scheme, three ...

One of the world’s most-promising early career researchers has received a generous $8 million-dollar grant from Terry Snow and the Snow family to pursue research into how the human immune system can hunt down and eradicate cancer. Dr Marian Burr ...

Researchers at Curtin University have received a grant of $737,689 to help develop an affordable and effective treatment for patients with chronic and severe wounds. The grant was announced by the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, following the latest grant ...

Thousands of highly trained, specialised academics who are casual or on a  fixed term-contract face an uncertain – even precarious – future as COVID-19 and diplomatic tensions threaten to cripple Australia’s university system. According to Guardian Australia, Dr Yaegan Doran ...