The head of a new research centre says the University of Queensland is not prepared to stand by and just watch as a new energy source is developed. Susan Woodward reports. Global energy demands are skyrocketing and the University of ...

More than a quarter of Victorian students who defer from university don't return to study, new research says.  And of the rural and regional students who defer, 55 per cent blame financial barriers as a reason why they are not continuing with educationor ...

Senior researchers from around the country will help  junior colleagues at regional universities get a grip on  research, as part of a year-long early career program. The Regional Universities Network (RUN), which is running the program, says it is the ...

What can happen to learning if educational pedagogy ever catches up with technology. A high-definition video communications system for Australia’s universities and research institutions has been unveiled by AARNet and Cisco, and already has a series of converts with Swinburne, Victoria, ...

Michael de Percy  is that rare beast: an adult Australian who does not own a mobile phone. It’s all the more surprising when you realise what he does for a living. De Percy is a lecturer in political science at ...

Cutting-edge research facilities that can simulate the carbon-laden atmosphere of the future and study its impact on native bushland have been opened at the University of Western Sydney. The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Richmond will house up to ...

Two academics from the University of NSW’s College of Fine Arts have been recognised for their work in online learning, winning an award from an American organisation dedicated to spreading new ways of teaching and learning. Karin Watson and Simon ...

Despite having been around since the 1970s, interdisciplinary research in Australia is still a relatively neglected field, but one that could achieve much more, a new report has found. The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) has just released Strengthening ...

The Adelaide-based IT services business and Moodle partner, NetSpot, has been bought by US learning management specialist Blackboard. The US company also announced the takeover of Baltimore’s Moodlerooms as it seeks to broaden its customer base to include users of ...

A “backsides on seats” mentality and poor government policy are to blame for a looming shortage of clinical placements for medical graduates, says the Australian Doctors’ Fund (ADF), a company that advocates for patients and doctors. ADF executive director Stephen ...