People across NSW took to the streets and their keyboards this week to protest the Baird Government’s TAFE privatisation bid. Last month, NSW Greens MP Dr John Kaye obtained a document that showed the Baird Government was considering cutting $63 million from ...

Information on how and where funds are spent in universities must be more open to the public, the OECD has said. In his speech to the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, Dirk van Damme, head of the innovation and measuring progress ...

Public universities must broaden their funding base to thrive and survive, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, has said. Nicholas Dirks, whose institution was ranked as the top public university in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said government ...

New research from the University of New South Wales has found that teenagers who smoke cannabis at least once a week are less likely to finish school, enrol in university or get a degree. The study focused on 3600 young people ...

More than 80 per cent of residents in the Ballina region oppose lethal responses to shark bites, a new University of Sydney study has shown. Researchers conducted a representative study of 500 residents in the Ballina state electorate, which includes Lennox ...

An esteemed human rights barrister will tonight deliver the University of Melbourne school of government’s 2015 Hamer Oration. Under the theme of What sort of country are we, Julian Burnside QC will critically examine Australia’s attitude towards human rights and ...

University of Sydney researchers are conducting the first-ever count of Australians living alone with dementia, in an effort to better understand their experiences. Estimates suggest almost 70,000 Australians – or a third of people with dementia not in aged care ...

New research shows an unhealthy diet shrinks the brain. A study from Deakin University and the Australian National University suggests older people with unhealthy diets have smaller hippocampi – the part of the brain believed to be integral for learning, ...

James Cook University researchers have played a role in a discovery that may alter the known history of humankind. JCU’s professor Paul Dirks and Dr Eric Roberts were part of an international team that discovered Homo naledi – an extinct, ...

Western Sydney University has announced a $500,000 scholarship fund to assist refugees, with plans to raise $12 million through a fundraising campaign. The scholarships are valued at $7500 a year and are to be used for study and living expenses. ...