ANU freezes non-academic hiring
Emma Macdonald The Australian National University has frozen all new recruitment for non-academic administrative staff.
Unis accuse Labor of flunking funding maths
Emma Macdonald The Group of Eight universities has accused federal Labor of overstating its funding increases to universities.
Study to probe links between savouring daylight and Vitamin D
Emma Macdonald The end of daylight saving and steady march to winter may have health implications for people with Vitamin D deficiency, according to an Australian National University Medical Professor Dr Robyn...
Women only have eyes for the big boys
Emma Macdonald Sorry men - size really does matter. And bigger is immeasurably better.
Fears over stressed children as how-to books race off shelves
Emma Macdonald Publishing houses printing how-to guides and NAPLAN-specific workbooks have found themselves winners as parents clamour for help in maximising their children's scores.
MP condemns Amazon over tax
Emma Macdonald Member for Fraser Andrew Leigh has condemned the world's largest online retailer Amazon for paying no tax in Australia and failing to support one Australian charity despite making Australian sales...
Why work on the homefront won't count this year
Emma Macdonald The millions of hours that women put into unpaid household, voluntary and community work will go uncounted this year as the government axes the Bureau of Statistics Work, Life and Family Survey to...
UC allows five years for world ranking
Emma Macdonald The University of Canberra will have an international ranking by 2018 and could become one of the country's first universities to share profits with its staff as part of an ambitious five-year plan...
Nobel winner backs ANU in global program
Emma Macdonald Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Brian Schmidt has long been an advocate of open learning, encouraging his young Australian National University undergraduates to sit in on lectures which are not...
ANU joins edX: providing free uni courses online
Emma Macdonald The Australian National University is one of six international institutions who will join the online learning revolution through a partnership with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute...
Billionaire gives back with $50m uni donation
Emma Macdonald Canberra-born global commodities trader and billionaire Graham Tuckwell and his wife Louise have donated $50 million to the Australian National University to set up Australia’s version of the Rhodes...
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Local recognition great start to new year
Emma MacDonald When asked how Australia's highest honour compares with receiving a Nobel prize, astrophysicist Brian Schmidt says it is wonderful to be recognised ''at home''.
Threat still 'large and dangerous'
Ilya Gridneff and Emma Macdonald The worst bushfires in NSW for more than a decade have ripped through the state's north-west, taking 33 homes and destroying 40,000 hectares of land.
Labor slammed over immigration review
Emma Macdonald The opposition and Greens say a review of the Immigration Department proves Labor's immigration policy is a shambles.
Honours list papers to stay suppressed
Emma Macdonald, Markus Mannheim The secret papers that detail how Australia Day honours are allotted will remain suppressed after a court ruled the public had no right to access them.
Garrett calls for all to back school reforms
Emma Macdonald Education Editor Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett concedes the latest international school comparisons confirmed Australia's education performance is flatlining and ''urgent action is needed''.
Garrett calls for all to back school reforms
Emma Macdonald Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett conceded the latest international school comparisons confirm Australia’s education performance is "flat-lining" and "urgent action is needed".
ACT bucks trend as Australian education results plummet
Emma Macdonald The most comprehensive international comparison of student results in reading, maths and science ever undertaken has plummeted Australia to the middle pack of nearly 50 countries which participated.
ACT worksites in for overhaul
Emma Macdonald Up to 12 new safety inspectors will be employed as a matter of urgency, dodgy builders will be named and shamed and on-the-spot fines will be introduced in an attempt to urgently rebuild a safety...
Baseball says no to alcohol sponsorship
Emma Macdonald When it comes to discouraging alcohol sponsorship in sport, the federal government is putting its money where its mouth is - offering $25 million in replacement sponsorship deals if sporting bodies...
