When the pandemic hit Australian university campuses in March 2020, institutions were scrambling to transition to online learning. However, as luck would have it, in the first months of 2020, educational designer Frances Cochrane was in the early stages of ...

Monday was proclaimed “freedom day” for Sydney residents who were double vaccinated, allowing them some extra privileges such as getting a well-earned haircut, visiting retail stores, and even visiting a pub for a coldie. But while the majority of residents were ...

More Australian universities must drastically review their current revenue streams if they are to remain viable in a highly disrupted market, according to a leading venture capital specialist. Stoic Venture Capital partner Dr Geoff Waring warned of an “over-reliance on ...

Lockdowns associated with the pandemic and a move away from traditional in-store sales to online purchases has seen demand for RMIT Online's masters programs jump significantly, particularly in the fields of logistics and data science.  With the explosion of “big ...

The recently released Global Innovation Index 2021 covering 132 countries highlights that innovation and research continue to grow in spite of COVID-19. In previous times of turbulence innovation has taken a back seat, but this is not the case with ...

Carmel Debel can remember the time her mother tried to enrol her and her brothers in the local primary school. It was back in 1990, when she was seven, and when the administration staff and principal saw her mum standing ...

The involuntary shift to online learning has also highlighted and facilitated a range of other alternate mode delivery mechanisms for international students. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic international education (onshore in Australia) was in face to face mode with strict ...

La Trobe university will become the first Australian university to mandate vaccination against COVID-19 for all staff and students. Vice chancellor John Dewar announced a two-staged approach to safely reopening its campuses later this year once the nation hits vaccine ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that US drag-queen and actor RuPaul and video game Pokémon are far removed from the serious work of CSIRO scientists, but that’s not entirely the case. In fact, of the 150 new species named in ...

Recent research from The University of Western Australia indicates that the real figure of Australian university students who engage in contract cheating in written assignments is between 8-11 per cent. Contract cheating involves students engaging the services of an academic ...