It was fortuitous that while COAG was meeting to sign off on a new tranche of reforms for the tertiary sector, the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association conference in Canberra was addressing issues around the value and voice ...

Talking to plants helps them grow — it’s the cardinal edict of gardening folklore the world over. But plants can’t really hear, and they certainly can’t talk back… Can they? According to new research from the University of Western Australia, ...

Fiona Wood asks if ERA should be doing something more useful than just stocktaking.Did you know that more than half the world’s 7 billion people are under 30 years of age? And that 90 per cent of these youthful people ...

Funding links between the burgeoning coal seam gas (CSG) industry and the University of Queensland have sparked protests and demands on campus that the university guard its research independence. University staff, the National Union of Students, and a coalition of ...

 Research on Alzheimer’s disease by three Future Fellows at the University of Wollongong may lead to new avenues to prevent or treat the debilitating condition. The three researchers have joined forces with other scientists to discover a new function for a ...

The Australian Academy of Science has opened applications for its 2013 round of awards, including career and early career researcher awards, travelling fellowships, research bursaries and conference support. More than $200,000 will be awarded in honorific awards recognising outstanding work ...

Europe is investing heavily in research, innovation and design, with the express purpose of attracting the best scientists in the world to its shores, the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference heard in Canberra. Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science ...

The European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, will visit Australia and New Zealand this week to meet with leaders in government, research and academia, to look at ways to expand and deepen collaboration on research and innovation. ...

Scientists need to find new ways of communicating with the public and tackling ingrained beliefs if they want their work to impact on the world we live in, a senior American scientist says. Nina Fedoroff, president of the American Association for ...

A research network to overcome negative trends affecting women researchers has been launched. The women’s research network was launched at the University of Ballarat in regional Victoria last week, with one of Australia’s leading researchers on gender in higher education the ...