MELBOURNE, 28 November 2014. The most effective and, perhaps, surprising weapons in our current battle against the spread of diseases like Ebola, HIV and cancer may prove to be mathematics and [...]

Understanding firewall rules is time consuming, complicated and hard. The majority of people know how to turn their firewalls off, but do these people know exactly what it is they are doing or [...]

Article by Jessica Sier, The Australian Financial Review Perhaps thinking like a computer is more important than knowing how to ­program one. Debate in education circles is raging about where [...]

Article by Megan Lehmann published in The Australian on Saturday 18 October 2014. Lehmann’s piece looks at the success of Alex Gunning, a teenage Melbournian who won a gold medal — with [...]

The Commonwealth’s announcement yesterday that it will invest $12 million into boosting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in Australian schools is yet another [...]

UNIVERSITIES letting students with poor maths into science and engineering programs have been put on notice by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. Academics complain that maths [...]

Australia’s Chief Scientist has unveiled an ambitious agenda for change to increase the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills to help secure the country’s future prosperity.

Article by Andrew Trounson, The Australian, 27 August 2014  FIRST-year university students are at risk of being misled by universities providing only vague information on the level of maths [...]

Women in science, industry and the Victorian economy will all benefit from an innovative internship program being launched today by veski and APR.Intern.