China, India, and beyond Did you know that 25 years ago, Australia hosted more international students from Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and the UK than it does today? That could be set to change with the advent of several new free ...

Front-line victims of the replication crisis have been identified by New Zealand and American scientists: studies themselves. Colin Camerer, Brian Nosek and their colleagues from Massey University, America's Center for Open Science, and Caltech, attempted to reproduce the findings of 21 social science ...

Single Mensa society members may reconsider bragging about it. A new University of Western Australia study has shown that although people prioritise intelligence in a mate, there's such a thing as being too intelligent to want to pair with. The same ...

The main goal of our universities and TAFE colleges is arguably to make students job-ready. Likewise, from the students’ perspective, faith that time and money they invest into getting themselves up-skilled is going to pay-off shortly is instrumental in motivating ...

Australian Universities need a new approach to education, one that harnesses the enthusiasm of the next generation of students to solve society's biggest problems, a new white paper has argued. Its authors said students who attend university because of the ...

We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to bond ...

University management professional turned organic beef farmer Brigid Price is now, of all things, an entrepreneur. The unlikeliness comes from the fact that while almost half of all new Australian ventures are founded in rural, regional or remote areas, only 2.4 per ...

Over the last few years the focus on online classrooms and use of technology in further education has grown, with a rapid rise in the numbers of students wanting to study online. According to an annual report into online education ...

School's out for summer School's out forever For an increasing number of Australian high schoolers, Alice Cooper's lyrics resonate. They especially do so with 15-year-olds from lower SES backgrounds, according to a new ACER report. The report, based on PISA data, collated ...

Academic supervisors should not have sexual or romantic relationships with students. That’s the message to universities confirmed by new sector principles. Developed jointly by Universities Australia, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) and ...