The Australian Academy of Science has opened applications for its 2013 round of awards, including career and early career researcher awards, travelling fellowships, research bursaries and conference support. More than $200,000 will be awarded in honorific awards recognising outstanding work ...

The Regional Universities Network (RUN) launched its new website last week, the latest move from an organisation that only formed in October last year but which is rapidly gaining ground. The website will present both a united public face for ...

The federal government’s Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), is being complemented by a $5.1 million trial involving high-speed connectivity available through the national broadband network (NBN), designed to enable new arrivals in widely dispersed locations to participate in virtual English ...

Three Australian universities have ranked in the top 50 of the world’s best universities by reputation. In the inaugural reputation rankings last year the University of Melbourne was the only one in Australia to make the top 50, it was ranked ...

This column has spoken to several academics who treat their blogs as a sort of pre-publication opportunity for peer review, taking great interest in the criticisms and commentary of their readers. But what if you are engaged in research that ...

Universities are pushing IT companies to come up with answers to their problem of storing massive amounts of digital information.  Corporate Australia is just starting to grapple with the concept of “big data”. It’s one area where the universities are ...

Despite major changes in communications technology, independent quality journalism remains vital for democracy and the functioning of civil society and maintenance of an informed public sphere, those attending the launch of a graduate school of journalism in Sydney have been ...

Senior executives in universities ought to allocate resources for the improvement and enhancement of teaching and learning as part of the planning and budget cycle. This is one of the approaches needed to overcome significant challenges faced by university leaderships in ...

A United Nations representative has dismissed a claim by ANU professor Des Ball that a major factor in the growth of opium cultivation in Burma has been ceasefire deals struck between the military government and armed ethnic groups. The regional ...

The Australian Research Council chief executive Professor Margaret Sheil said she was delighted with the response to the call for nominations for the 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluations.  Sheil said the 147 selected were experts in their ...