Falling Chinese corporate profits are a bad omen for most, but not for those involved in research and development, a senior Australian Government economist argued. Last year, annual Chinese corporate profits fell 1.4 per cent, the first annual decline since ...

Professional learning delivered by academics to teachers in Queensland’s Bowen Basin has improved reading ability in the local schoolchildren. The project involved University of Queensland education experts instructing teachers in local communities. The academics showed the teachers techniques for reading education, and observed ...

Determining the local economic impact of international students in most areas of Australia is nigh impossible because the data is a mess, an expert argued. In a study soon to be published in the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, professor ...

It’s an exciting time to be in quantum computing. On the very same day that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described University of New South Wales research in the field as “the best work in the world”, the team behind it all ...

One of the university leaders behind the Australian public campaign for an International Day of the Tropics said the movement has gained international political momentum. After returning from a recent United Nations summit in New York, James Cook University vice-chancellor professor ...

If the peak body for group training organisations gets its way, the upcoming federal Budget will contain proposals to run all school-based apprenticeships through group training. Group training is an employment arrangement whereby a GTO recruits apprentices, and places them with host ...

A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel "ass-ets". Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week's work ...

Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...

One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has found. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...

The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...