The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) announces the appointment of Professor Tim Marchant as its new Director, commencing in January 2021, following a comprehensive recruitment [...]

The University of Melbourne, Monash, ANU, James Cook University and the University of Newcastle share over $3 million of funding in the latest DECRA announcement by the ARC.

Monash University Professors Rob Hyndman and Gael Martin have been named by the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences in Australia as two of its newest Fellows. Both are ACEMS researchers based [...]

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that Dr Cathy Foley, who has spent the last two years as the CSIRO’s Chief Scientist, will take over as the nation’s Chief Scientist from Dr Alan [...]

One of Australia’s top 25 analytics leaders tells AFR BOSS how he became a data scientist.

The “interim analysis” is promising, however it’s an early look at the data before a study is complete, Read more in ‘The Conversation’. German biotech company BioNTech and US [...]

Maths achievement scores for Australian 15-16 year-olds have shown steady decline since 2003. Perhaps even more concerning is that the ranking-gap between Australia and top performing countries [...]

“Victoria has only done what all the other states and territories have been able to do apart from NSW – which is get to zero and keep it there”: UniSA’s Adrian Estermann [...]

Australia’s “maths deficit” at school is deepening and becoming a spiral in which the lack of maths graduates is reinforcing the lack of teachers with specialist training in the [...]

The Australian National University has established a Joint International Science College (JISC) with Shandong University in China, offering an innovative education program that allows Chinese [...]