The fulltime employment rate for graduates with a bachelor’s in mining engineering fell to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia. For an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, these are the lowest employment numbers since ...

The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning. UniMelb has been allocated $24.9 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ...

The Mitchell Institute’s Peter Noonan has warned that VET needs to stop being conflated with apprenticeships as it could cause overinvestment in declining industries. Noonan said that falling apprenticeship numbers aren’t the main problem in VET, as this is partly ...

Despite the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries by US President Donald Trump being overturned by a federal court decision, and the decision being upheld against an appeal by the White House, there remains the real possibility that Trump will ...

At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...

The Australian private tutoring industry has now been Ubered by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane. For co-chief executives and founders Sam Robertson and Cameron Schmidt, the story of Scooter Tutor began in 2007. Schmidt initially came ...

Restoring the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program and including sub-degree loans in the demand-driven system are two of the priorities for the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group’s new chair, professor Colin Stirling. This puts the IRU – a network ...

Three vice-chancellors have been recognised today by being inducted into the Order of Australia. University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence will now have AC after his name as a Companion of the Order of Australia. Spence received the honour ...

The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021, and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund. Allan Tait, UniMelb chief financial ...

For entrepreneur Bevis Cheng, failure is much more interesting than success. “It really shapes the way you think about things, the way you approach things, what you could do differently, what you could do better,” Cheng says. “I mean everybody ...