“The blue stocking is the most odious character in society … she sinks wherever she was placed, like the yolk of an egg, to the bottom, and carries the filth with her.” Those are the thoughts of 18th-century English writer ...

A new scheme is getting students to play to their strengths in the academic environment, and it has the potential to engage staff. Jack Iveson is running a strengths-based program at Torrens University’s APM College of Business and Communication, where ...

The concept of suburbia may seem a contemporary one. In fact, the word suburb, literally meaning ‘below the city’, goes back to the 14th century, and is mentioned in one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a hiding place for robbers ...

A professor from the university of Melbourne and one from the University of Tasmania have been appointed to the board of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation . Dr Adi Paterson, chief executive of ANSTO, announced that UniMelb provost Margaret Sheil ...

In the wake of the Brexit referendum and economic pessimism in Britain, an optimistic commentator in the EU-based Politico was forecasting a boomlet for financial consultants and lobbyists in London and Brussels. A boomlet? Is that a ‘real’ word or ...

Australia’s competitiveness in the future international marketplace and ability to cope with digital disruption will depend largely on the VET sector delivering STEM training to the workforce, a new report has argued. The report, The VET Era: Equipping Australia’s workforce for ...

Research suggests staff cynicism about vice-chancellor pushes for gender equity could perpetuate inequity. Professor Isabel Metz, from the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School, has gone into businesses and examined executives’ attitudes towards gender equity. She found many leaders are reluctant to publicly speak about the ...

New terms are constantly being created to label demographic groups, often by marketers wanting to target them. These terms are commonly formed using acronyms – as in the examples dinky (dual income no kids yet), kippers (kids in parents pockets ...

It’s not just the university executives who want to change their institutions' business models; the rank-and-file academics want to do so, too. But they’re hampered by cumbersome university infrastructure that slows the pace of change to a crawl, an expert ...

Enforcement of the 38-hour working week and providing two days a week of subsidised childcare for all parents are among a series of workforce recommendations made by a national network of public policy experts from 16 universities. These recommendations, tabled ...