Academics raise alarm over 'pay to cite' deal
Australian researchers are accessing hundreds of dollars in freebies from a company after naming a product in their research.
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Timna Jacks
Education Reporter at The Age
12-year-old tells Prime Minister her yiayia has the right to die
It took enormous strength for a 12-year-old to fight for her yiayia's right to die.
Academic journals charged by US consumer watchdog
Hundreds of Australian academics have become unwittingly embroiled in a legal battle between a 'predatory' academic publisher and the US consumer watchdog.
Academics swindled by 'predatory' journals
Fraudsters operating largely from parts of Asia have been posing as academic publishers.
Schools adopt brain training programs
Australian school students are being taught to rub their ears, massage their jaw, and imagine the letter X, in order to improve their learning.
Students taught pseudo-scientific 'rubbish', experts warn
A popular teaching style embraced by teachers across Australia has been condemned as nothing more than a fad.
Maths plus all-girls school equals better results, study finds
For girls at co-educational schools, the numbers just aren't adding up.
Meditation meets maths in Melbourne's first Buddhist school
Hoa Nghiem Primary School in Springvale is founded on meditation, environmental sustainability and wellbeing - even maths is taught in a thoughtful, compassionate manner.
Workers received cars and overseas holidays: Palmer
Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer has denied any wrongdoing over large political donations made to his party from his beleaguered business, arguing it was in the interest of the company to support a party that would abolish the carbon tax.
AWU-backed Khalil wins Wills preselection
Labor candidate Peter Khalil has had a landslide win in the Labor preselection for the prestigious federal Melbourne seat of Wills, dismissing commentary that his win was the product of a factional deal and proclaiming the triumph was a "genuine choice".
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