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There's work (and life) outside of universities for PhD graduates

  • Written by: Les Field, Secretary for Science Policy at the Australian Academy of Science, and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UNSW Australia
imagePhD graduates should aim for careers in industry.Shutterstock/Syda Productions

The number of PhD students graduating from Australian universities continues to rise, with more than 8,000 in 2014 and about one in three in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

Our best estimates are that about half of these students will...

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Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research

  • Written by: Peter Siminski, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Wollongong
imageA helping hand for school children from disadvantaged backgrounds would yield economic benefits for NSW.AAP Image/Joe Castro

This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors in NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to tackle old problems and identify emerging...

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Future teachers improving in literacy and numeracy: Birmingham

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Some 94.5% of teaching students sitting this year for a new test have met the required standard for literacy, and 93.1% have met the numeracy standard, Education Minister Simon Birmingham says.

Birmingham released the results a day after the latest school NAPLAN results showed flatlining.

From July 1 this year all teaching graduates are expected to...

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How old is too old for a safe pregnancy?

  • Written by: Hannah Brown, Post-doctoral Fellow; Reproductive Epigenetics, University of Adelaide
imageSocial and financial pressures are driving many Australian women who want to have children to wait until later in life.mimagephotography/Shutterstock

This week, an Australian woman delivered a baby at the age of 62 after having in vitro fertilisation (IVF) abroad.

Few women can naturally conceive a baby later in life without the help of IVF –...

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  2. Weekly Dose: sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
  3. NAPLAN results don't tell the full story behind Australia's lack of education progress
  4. Zika, or dengue and Chikungunya: what should you be worried about at the Rio Olympics?
  5. Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
  6. PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
  7. The traditionalists are restless, so why don't they have a party of their own in Australia?
  8. Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers
  9. Making waves: the tsunami risk in Australia
  10. Amnesty-Human Rights Watch investigation reports medical neglect and assaults on Nauru
  11. Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
  12. Why executions in Indonesia must stop
  13. Jihad Selfie: listening to 'the other side' in documentary film
  14. Ghost-hunting: will the census reveal the true scale of homelessness in Australia?
  15. Business Briefing: Abenomics fails to address Japan's true woes
  16. Is the concept of 'helicopter money' set for a resurgence?
  17. Reimagining NSW: Five ways to future-proof NSW’s innovation ecosystem
  18. Does not compute: Australia is still miles behind in recycling electronic products
  19. Reimagining NSW: going beyond 'wilderness' and finding fresh ways to relate to our environment
  20. The hidden curriculum in surgery says it's not for women
  21. The land we play on: equality doesn’t mean justice
  22. The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
  23. In praise of the Sirius building, a ruined remnant of idealistic times
  24. Let forensic science help prevent a crime or a disaster
  25. Dhaka café attack: don't blame private education for radicalisation in Bangladesh
  26. Politics podcast: Tom Calma says Nigel Scullion should go
  27. Economists react: RBA cuts rates to 1.5%
  28. The great movie scenes: Hitchcock's Vertigo
  29. Family First's Bob Day wins last SA Senate seat in shock result
  30. One in five police officers are at risk of PTSD – here's how we need to respond
  31. 'A wiseman's art': Twelfth Night and cross-mobility casting
  32. Are you ready for the jobs of the future?
  33. If Australia is going to have a plebiscite on marriage equality, how should it work?
  34. The electricity market's not doing a great job – here's how to improve it
  35. High speed rail plan still needs to prove economic benefits will outweigh costs
  36. Census 2016: should you be concerned about your privacy?
  37. China will be the winner if US backs out of the TPP
  38. Big retailers are realising the risk of moving into convenience stores
  39. Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
  40. Explainer: what is behavioural activation for depression?
  41. Mapping the brain: scientists define 180 distinct regions, but what now?
  42. Reimagining NSW: how good governance strengthens democracy
  43. Can we predict who will turn to crime?
  44. Nostalgia, VHS and Stranger Things' homage to 80s horror
  45. Sports coaches need to be educated about concussion to keep players safe on the field
  46. Russian doping scandal: should other countries pull out of the Olympics?
  47. WA Senate result: 5 Liberals, 4 Labor, 2 Greens, 1 One Nation
  48. The return of the breeze block
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