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Prospective domestic Australian university students value teacher quality the most. That's the upshot of the QS Enrolment Solutions 2018 Domestic Student Survey. Released this week, its 5,486 participants indicated that passion, real world experience and clear assessment instructions are their standout teacher characteristics. Davorin ...

On Monday, ABC chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous for her supposed anti-Liberal bias, she provoked the opposite kind of ire by asking for people's “…stories about living ...

Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture, and the sun; regulates temperature; produces hormones; stores bodily substances; and indicates medical conditions. Now, it can potentially add another role to its arsenal: ...

Is having 100% renewable energy for a country feasible? With less than 12 years until climate change disaster, having an answer to this question is more pressing than ever. In America, leftists like Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Orcasio-Cortez thinks it's possible by 2050, while conservatives assert this ...

The definition of intelligence is complicated. Cambridge Dictionary defines it as 'the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason', though, in psychology, when measured by IQ tests, it refers to the ability ...

The NTEU has alleged that Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) online study company Studiosity's new peer-to-peer tutoring service for university students is "clearly not in either existing staff’s or students’ best interests". PAL allows top-performing students to tutor others who need help, with the student tutors earning ...

In August last year, in the wake of the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) watershed report into sexual assault and harassment at universities, a coalition of organisations called for zero tolerance on student-research supervisor relationships, due to their innate power imbalance. Last ...

Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Greg Craven, a "dear friend" of Cardinal George Pell, remains loyal to him despite Pell's conviction for child sex offences. As one of ten character referees for Pell, Craven wrote that Pell is "...a deeply sensitive person; ...

Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

On behalf of fellow students in their position, Anna McNeil (20), Eliana Singer (19), and Ry Walker (20) have sued Yale University for its fraternities. In their claim lodged in court this month, the women (who study art history, political science, and ...