Tiana Buckley is a lover of original, immersive, experimental and applied drama. We've all sat in a theatre watching a play; tense in our seats, funereally quiet, all terrified of observing an actor slip up and having to bear witness ...

The University of Melbourne has today revealed a 12-name ledger of luminaries for its inaugural Enterprise Professors slate. This collective, which includes two former Victorian premiers among leaders of business and industry, is intended to strengthen the ties between UniMelb's ...

One of Australia’s oldest music schools will host a sold out performance of students and a slam poet rapping an adaptation of Homer’s 3000-year-old epic, The Odyssey. The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The Con), part of the University of Sydney, is set to open ...

In its long list of recommendations to the next federal government, the Grattan Institute is calling for tougher entry standards into teacher education. Grattan school education program director Peter Goss estimated there has been roughly one review every year, for 40 ...

University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli and colleagues found that principals who set clear ...

We've all seen ads on TV, in newspapers, splashed across social media, on the sides of buses and on billboards from city centres to the rural outskirts of civilisation. Gambling advertising has become an inescapable ever-present, to the point where ...

With endless announcements about new multimillion-dollar STEM facilities opening at Australian universities, arts education has finally received some love. It’s $6.5 million worth of love in fact – the price tag of the University of Melbourne's new arts education facility. ...

A university think tank wants the soft skills of schoolchildren to be measured, including critical thinking ability, work ethic and sense of community responsibility. The report Education data: Harnessing the potential, from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute, states that these attributes should ...

The AFL’s Geelong Cats are coming off a loss at the MCG, but they hope to have an edge there next time. Deakin University has built an $8.4 million sports precinct that includes a Melbourne Cricket Ground-sized oval specifically built for the Cats' training. ...

STEM education is the Australian Academy of Science’s number one election priority, as per a policy statement released yesterday. Unveiled by academy president professor Andrew Holmes during a speech in Canberra, the group of distinguished scientists' objectives include getting Australian schools' students into the ...