Education Insider: Steve Delaney
Each month, Refraction Education will bring you the ideas, experiences [...]
Closing the computer science gender gap: how one woman is making a difference in many lives
Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College I’ve been passionate about increasing [...]
Five challenges for science in Australian primary schools
Simon Crook and Rachel Wilson outline some of the concerns that need to be addressed with the introduction of a national science curriculum in primary schools.
10 things the CRCs have achieved in 25 years
Australia’s world-leading Cooperative Research Centres program will be celebrating 25 years of science impact and achievement at its annual conference in Canberra on 25 May. Here are 10 of the coolest things they have achieved in that time!
Big Data is useful, but we need to protect your privacy too
These days, massive volumes of data about us are collected from censuses and surveys, computers and mobile devices, as well as scanning machines and sensors of many kinds. But this data can also reveal personal and sensitive information about us, raising some serious privacy concerns.
For Mother’s Day, scientists reveal top 6 supermums found in nature
A mother’s support can be as vital to animals as it is to humans.
Education Insider: Manjekah Dunn
Each month, Refraction Education will bring you the ideas, experiences and advice of an individual in the field of education. This month we spoke to Manjekah Dunn, a first year medicine student at UNSW, who last year had the opportunity to represent Australia in the Australian Science Olympiads in Indonesia.
Big data’s arrival in sport is changing the rules of the game
In sport we don’t just want to know who won. We now want to know how to replicate success and then improve on it. And to do this, we’re using data – and lots of it. The field of “big data” analytics has come to sport and athletics, with massive implications for sport as we know it.
Does industry have the solution to the STEM skills shortage?
That dull maths homework you never wanted to do, the [...]
Measuring the value of science: It’s not always about the money
Rod Lamberts, Australian National University Reports about the worthy contributions [...]