The most educated people are among the least satisfied at work, a new report from Curtin University has shown.

Monash University’s partnership with Melbourne’s Monash Children’s Hospital has been given a $6 million boost to allow medical students to learn in its walls, and for clinical trials to be conducted.

The University of Tasmania has awarded three scholarships to asylum seekers to, in part, bridge the gap between Australia’s island state and the rest of the world.

The inaugural recipients of the Tasmanian Asylum Seeker Scholarship are from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

TAFE Directors Australia has appointed former government education bureaucrat, Craig Robertson, as its new chief executive.

The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education.

Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline, with economics suffering from similar issues.

Are payday lenders and similar alternate credit sources irredeemable loan sharks or providers or an essential service?

Ashton de Silva is an associate professor and economist at RMIT University. He has published a discussion paper titled Housing deprivation or financial debt: betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea?, which details how changing lending rules to restrict access to financial services could deprive low-income people of home basics like whitegoods, furniture and internet access.

The University of South Australia is pitching its research to the people via a newly announced crowdfunding project.

Simon Moss is an associate professor and psychologist at Charles Darwin University. He has been reviewing the bias against people with mental illnesses, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD when looking for jobs or changing careers. Some of his findings are counterintuitive, with many businesses missing out on great candidates because of the attendant stigma of these illnesses and disorders.

Commenting on the case of Dr Anna Ahimastos, who fabricated medical research data in articles published by two high-profile journals, Queensland University of Technology’s Virginia Barbour says publish or perish leads to corners being cut.