The University of New South Wales is offering excelling high schoolers the chance to fast-track their university education with a credited, extracurricular computing course.

A new workspace at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) will open in 2012 to foster the entrepreneurial skills of technically advanced computer science students.

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has added an extra session of its newly introduced smart grid short course in an effort to build as skills base of engineers in an area of increasing demand.

Until now, CIOs have been flying blind when it comes to empirical, comparable evidence of how the market views IT investments by publicly listed organisations. But new research changes that. From Hindsight to Knowledge — the power in knowing the past when investing in the future, looks at the market's assessment of the returns to IT investments in Australia.

Developments in solar energy research, chicken chat analysis and the search for the perfect sunscreen are among the 19 winning entries in this year's Eureka Prizes for science held by the Australian Museum in Sydney.