California Institute of Technology has finally been knocked off its perch atop the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, after six years in the top spot. Four Australian institutions have broken into the chart for the first time, while the University of Melbourne has outdone ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert has argued La Trobe University’s reputation could be damaged by what he called the “academically irresponsible” conduct of its researchers working for the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published ...

Western Sydney University has forked out $20 million for marketing to run between 2015 and 2017. The University of New South Wales, RMIT and the University of Queensland all spent between $12.5 to $15 million, each, on their marketing in 2013. That makes the half a ...

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but research into deadly diseases often doesn’t get funding because pharmaceutical companies can’t make money out of it. This includes work on cures for malaria, Ebola and the Zika virus. That’s the blunt statement from University ...

The CSIRO has partnered with educational software company Stile, which was set up by Dr Alan Finkel before he became Chief Scientist of Australia, to improve science teaching in schools. Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO is a package of digital ...

The renewal of Canberra’s Mount Stromlo visitor centre demonstrates what scientists need to do to successfully communicate to the public that their research isn't just a waste of money, an astrophysicist has said. The visitor centre's re-emergence completes the renewal of ...

The full-time employment slump for those who have recently graduated from postgraduate degrees may have stabilised, new figures from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) have shown, but there’s still a stark gender gap in starting salaries. GCA’s Postgraduate Destinations 2015 report ...

Not tabling multiple assignments to be due on the same day and having a built environment that encourages students to get outdoors are two recommendations of a new study analysing how universities can promote mental wellbeing. "Setting-based interventions to promote ...

People’s discomfort about the use of data in education will fade as older generations die, data company executives have said. Rick Jackson, chief marketing officer of data visualisation company Qlik, argued that “millennials are all about the data”. He said ...