The University of Queensland has employed some clever design thinking to add 500 new parking spaces to its St Lucia campus whilst also building a new football field, all without any of the eyesores so often associated with parking stations. By building the ...

Instead of throwing gala welcoming banquets, providers should focus on helping students find jobs and keeping them informed. Are we doing enough to empower the international student cohort in Australia? The answer from me is a sweet and simple, “No”. ...

ECU names research fellow As part of a push to recruit more than 20 new professors capable of boosting its research activity, Edith Cowan University has appointed metabolomics, biostatistics and machine learning expert professor David Broadhurst as its fourth professorial research ...

Offering unlimited online participation and equity of access, massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer students from all walks of life the free opportunity to educate themselves via pre-recorded lectures, problem sets and interactive user discussion forums. MOOCs are generally regarded ...

ANU is set to receive what is understood to be Australia’s largest ever personal philanthropic contribution, in an arrangement worth about $200 million. Graham and Louise Tuckwell announced the details of their contribution this week. It will be spread out over the next ...

Professor John Fazarkerley has commenced today as the new dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Coming to the windy city from the United Kingdom, were he was the director and CEO of ...

Mixing business, leisure and education on the same network can create challenges for network capacity. By Bruce Miller. At most higher-education institutions today, you’ll find students, faculty and staff struggling with consistently bad internet. It’s hard to believe these are places of ...

One of Australia’s oldest music schools will host a sold out performance of students and a slam poet rapping an adaptation of Homer’s 3000-year-old epic, The Odyssey. The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The Con), part of the University of Sydney, is set to open ...

One of the leaders behind a program mentoring high school students from refugee backgrounds is marking this year’s World Refugee Week by calling for those on temporary protection visas and asylum seekers to be eligible for federal government assistance to meet ...

Three new academics have joined Bond University's Faculty of Law. A mixture of passion, dynamism and research opportunities attracted the trio to the Gold Coast campus. Professor Rachael Field is an expert on domestic and family violence and an advocate for ...