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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 [...]

MELBOURNE, THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015: Australia’s future as a high technology, research-driven economy will depend on reversing 20-year trends in the mathematical sciences, according to a new report [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 2 August 2015 A move to deepen links between business and universities is set to boost 10-fold the number of PhD students placed with employers [...]

Article by Natasha Bita, The Australia, 1 August 2015 When Ashley Holloway walked into her first computer programming course at university, the lecturer asked if she was lost. “There were guys [...]

Professor Chubb spoke with ABC Newcastle’s Paul Turton about his visit to the Hunter region, the importance of science education and ways to improve teaching of science, technology, engineering [...]

MELBOURNE, TUESDAY 28 JULY, 2015: What Professor Michael Shelley does is so unlike what other people do. And over three weeks he will be sharing his ideas and advanced theoretical work, and [...]

Article by Craig Whitsed and Wendy Green, University World News, 26 July 2015 Disruptive shifts emanating from globalisation and emergent technologies are forcing a rethink of traditional [...]