Artist-academics face difficult choices in reconciling their diverse roles and fulfilling the university’s research expectations, reports Jeremy Gilling. The creative arts disciplines have taken something of a battering over recent decades of structural change in the tertiary education sector. But ...

Universities are shutting down philosophy and history courses at the very time humanity needs them most, writes Andrew Baker. Morality has tangled roots, millennia-deep, sourced in pre-Christian philosophers such as the ancient Greeks Socrates and Aristotle who wondered what we ...

Beset by skill shortages, the ICT industry is looking for ways to change its image, reports Jeremy Gilling. Young people who are drawn to technology have mostly made their minds up about the broad direction of their careers in their ...

Industry doesn’t need more programmers, it needs more thinkers, writes Jeremy Gilling. IT faculties and schools may be struggling across the country to attract students and retain staff, but that’s not Steve Elliot’s experience. Elliot, a professor in Sydney University’s ...

Engineering Australia is equally aware of its masculinised image. Now the Women in Engineering (WIE) committee is calling on female engineers to be profiled in a special section of Engineers Australia’s ’Make it So’ website – which is dedicated to ...

It’s the face of health care that most people are most familiar with, but it’s the least well-researched. Jeremy Gilling reports Australia leads much of the world in primary health care research. We, along with Britain and New Zealand, produce ...

It meets the same rigorous standards as its mainstream academic counterparts, but its by students, for students. By Jeremy Gilling. The Australian Medical Student Journal is a standout in a crowded field. It’s Australia’s first peer-reviewed medical journal, and one ...

Four pharmacy schools will form a unified voice. Four of Australia’s six original pharmacy schools have formed an alliance to provide a national voice in education and professional development in advance of national accreditation of the health professions. The University ...

The policies are in place, the commitment is there and the resources are freely available, but real change has been slow in coming. Jeremy Gilling reports on building intercultural competence in business education. The boardrooms and executive ranks of Australian ...