Students are abandoning the more complex 2-unit HSC maths course in favour of the simpler ''general'' course in an attempt to maximise their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), but then find themselves ill-equipped to cope at university, teachers have warned.
Indigenous women take hands-on role in health
When her mother died of a heart attack aged only 44, Dea Delaney-Theile needed answers.
Pyne gets marks for training focus
We're a little more than a month into the new Coalition government and details are starting to emerge about its plans for education.
Students flock to free online uni
The offshoot of Open Universities Australia is drawing students from more than 180 countries.
How do I tell my family I don't want to study medicine?
Parental pressure can be misguided despite good intentions.
Picture perfect
Art and science meet - with strings attached.
Cook up a nutritious degree
Chemistry is big in Deakin's bachelor of food and nutrition sciences degree.
Fears over Chinese school deals
An outspoken professor's sacking heightens doubts about academic freedom in China.
Blazing row over fires and climate change
Conditions give pause as groups fight over ties between bushfires and climate change.
Explosive news about Mars super-volcanoes
The discoveries continue to shape theories about whether there was ever life on Mars.
