Media releases

Australia’s 15-year-old students were the second-highest achieving creative thinkers in an assessment of 64 countries and economies, a new report shows.

A new generation of First Nations researchers is emerging from a significant philanthropic partnership between ACER and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). 

Winning ideas in this year’s Australian STEM Video Game Challenge included a lone spaceship protecting Earth from shooting stars, a solar-powered city built on a sphere around the sun and interstellar golf.

ACER has announced the appointment of Lisa Rodgers as ACER’s next CEO. She replaces Professor Geoff Masters AO, who is stepping down at the end of August after 36 years at ACER, including 26 years as CEO.

Australian teenagers with higher levels of curiosity than others performed better in mathematics in the world’s largest assessment of 15-year-old students, a new report has shown.  

Two Australian school teams will represent Australia in this year’s International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM2C), thanks to their approach to finding a solution for the post-pandemic trend of abandoning pets.