The National Tertiary Education Union is planning industrial action against the University of Sydney following the failure to come to an agreement over enterprise bargaining negotiations. In a letter to members, Michael Thomson, president of the University of Sydney NTEU ...

Synthetic bone technology, developed here in Australia, could herald a major medical breakthrough that revolutionises the treatment of bone defects. We all tend to think of our bones as if they are scaffolding – rigid and fixed, solid, hard and ...

Spintronics is one of the newest branches of science – a multi-disciplinary field combining materials science, engineering and microscopy – offering “spectacular” potential for computer processors and data storage. The ideas discussed during the Worldwide Universities Network Spintronics Consortium could ...

Universities have to do more to support their doctoral candidates and it can start with giving them a desk and a chair.  The University of Sydney is undertaking a fundamental change to the way PhD students study in an effort ...

Fair Work Australia has instructed the University of Sydney and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) to go back to discussing the proposed redundancies of more than 300 staff – and both sides are claiming it as a victory. The dispute ...

Staff at the University of Sydney have been warned to brace for budget cuts - including redundancies for "non-performing academics" - vice-chancellor Michael Spence has announced in a video statement. Despite a "good year on many fronts" the university needed ...