A $50 million dollar research grant has been awarded to the University of New South Wales and the University of Newcastle to develop "world-leading" technologies to address climate change. The recycling and clean energy trailblazer program will see researchers collaborate ...

Teaching adult professionals can sometimes be a challenging task, and not all teaching techniques work effectively across age groups. Currently, multiple methods are available to prepare and deliver lessons, and with experience, those teaching older cohorts adapt these techniques and ...

Australia’s leading universities have asked the government to boost medical degree placements to relieve workforce shortages in rural and regional areas.  The Group of Eight (G08) released a paper calling for politicians to fund at least 1,000 domestic university placements ...

A major veterinary teaching hospital has been referred to workplace regulators after the union alleged "extreme" health and safety concerns for staff and animals. Staff at Murdoch University's Animal Hospital are experiencing thoughts of self-harm and have reported car accidents ...

Professor Malcolm Press CBE joins the HEDx podcast as the VC of Manchester Metropolitan University. He shares insights into his commitment to his staff and students and the commitment Manchester Met has to its civic setting in a major city ...

A university academic from Deakin University has been accused of killing his wife inside their suburban Melbourne home. Adam Brown, 40, faced the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday afternoon charged with his wife’s murder. The 35-year-old woman died at the Patrick Ave ...

In a rapidly changing society, ongoing learning is important for vocational training teachers; one way for them to keep learning is through the workplace.  In her new book, Supporting the Workplace Learning of Vocational and Further Education Teachers: Mentoring and ...

The University of Sydney has been fined $61,000 for disposing of a medical scanner containing radioactive material in a scrap metal yard in Chipping Norton in southwest Sydney. The university was charged over disposing of radioactive waste without the consent of the NSW Environmental ...

The federal government's university funding changes have been a key driver behind Australia's record inflation rate according to the ABS, prompting union calls to increase academics' wages. New ABS data shows that during this year's March quarter university costs rose ...

As of 2019, Australian universities produced about 10 thousand PhD graduates each year, a number that kept growing in the previous 20 years while increasing the competitiveness of the academic job market.  A recent study from the University of Sydney analysed over ...