La Trobe University has hit back at claims that it’s “at risk of going broke in a matter of weeks”. Late last night, The Age published an article that reported the university was in dire straits – with cash reserves ...

A ‘coffee-grinds’ intervention may be useful for managing obesity and metabolic syndrome by altering the gut microbiota.

Deakin University’s vice-chancellor has flagged with staff that hundreds of positions will be slashed as the university maps out the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic. In a town hall meeting, Iain Martin said the institution would not sign up ...

The government has confirmed that the JobKeeper scheme won’t be expanded to workers who missed out, after news broke of a $60 billion forecasting error. Following the government’s announcement last week that the accounting error would see the JobKeeper package ...

Hard-hit Victorian universities will be thrown a $350 million financial lifeline by the state government to recover from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. In addition, the government will offer universities payroll tax deferrals of around $110 million, higher education ...

Perhaps no topic in recent history has garnered as much public and academic attention as COVID-19. News of this pandemic has saturated the international airwaves since it was first reported in late 2019. In its wake, life has ground to ...

The Australian Mathematical Science Institute’s (AMSI) latest report argues that gender inequity and imbalance will jeopardise the nation’s intellectual capability, compromising both post-coronavirus recovery and future responses to pandemics. The report coincides with the 2020 International Women in Mathematics Day, ...

Negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Australia’s universities have culminated in a deal that could see full-time staff take a salary cut of between 5 and 15 per cent. The union said today that the move will ...

British researchers will study the genes of thousands of ill COVID-19 patients to try to crack one of the most puzzling riddles of the novel coronavirus: why does it kill some people but give others not even a mild headache? ...

One in eight Year 10 STEM classes is taught by an out-of-field teacher, Australia’s largest study into the issue has found. The University of Sydney and Monash University report used data from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ...