Charitable giving to universities in the US has reached a historic high for the second year in a row, an annual survey has found. With concerns looming in the US about funding and student loan debts, philanthropic donations reserved for student financial aid ...

Dean of Science at UNSW Merlin Crossley has joined other leading experts concerned over reduced funding to research. "Across the world, Singapore, China, and even the European countries are maintaining or increasing funding to science, and have a strategy to ...

The University of Sydney has announced it will cut its carbon footprint by 20 per cent by divesting from fossil fuel investments over the next three years. The University’s vice-principal operations, Sara Watts, said the move, which will cut heavy ...

Right across the country we need to be thinking about growing philanthropy in higher education, Colin Taylor, director for alumni relations and philanthropy at the Australian National University said. “Australia has a great culture of giving to begin with. The ...

Debate on the federal government's controversial higher education reforms has resumed in the lower house today. Around 20 MPs will finish speaking on the legislation to deregulate university fees after which the bill will be sent to the upper house. Education ...

Schools and universities need to work together to help break down stereotypes in the portrayal of engineers and encourage more girls to enter the profession, a leading expert argues. Alex Bannigan, the manager of women in engineering at the University ...

A continued reduction in research dollars will force our best and brightest researchers overseas, a leading science academic warns. Professor Bruce Milthorpe, dean of science at the University of Technology, Sydney, said the cuts to research funding would reduce the ...

Go8 chair professor Ian Young has announced he will not seek a further term as vice-chancellor of ANU when his current term expires in February 2016. In a statement released on February 4, Young said he planned to turn his ...

The Abbott Government’s cuts to research and plans to deregulate university fees are already forcing our best and brightest overseas, the NTEU said today. Speaking in response to ABC reports that researchers are being forced to look overseas for work, ...