Article by Rubee Dano, Lateral Magazine, 10 August 2015. The idea that boys are better at maths than girls is hardly new. Seemingly a common misconception, it leads to a warped perception of [...]

Article by John Ross, The Australian, 12 August 2015 It outshines other sciences in Discovery grant applications and trains graduates for a raft of industries. Yet schools don’t mandate it, [...]

MELBOURNE, FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015: The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute publishes a guide — Maths Ad(d)s — to help career advisors, teachers, students and their parents understand [...]

SM^2 is a recently established series of local discussion meetings on the theme of Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter. Our aim is to fill a gap in the Australian scientific calendar by [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 10 August 2015 Bruce Henry, the head of UNSW Australia’s School of Mathematics and Statistics laments that 70 per cent of students now [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 9 August 2015. Top educators have defended Australian universities’ move away from requiring maths as a prerequisite for science, [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 7 August, 2015 The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has called on universities to reverse an historic low in the number of institutions [...]

Article by Stephen Matchett, Campus Morning Mail, 6 August, 2015 The excellent Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has run the numbers on the state of maths education and found the state [...]