The Australian Research Council has released a simplified version of the national interest test which will see disciplinary experts assess grant applications, rather than civil servants. Announced on Thursday, the new changes aim to "significantly reduce the administrative burden for ...

Staff from Griffith University have stopped work for a day to protest stalled wage negotiations and job insecurity at the Queensland campus. In late November, university management sent out enterprise agreement offers to staff after back-and-forth talks with the union ...

Deakin uni will face the fair work commission after being accused of alleged "systemic wage theft" by the NTEU. The National Tertiary Education Union claims the enterprise agreement was breached after more than 650 staff across four campuses were paid ...

Over 400 research projects from 32 major Australian universities have been greenlit for more than $221 million dollars as part of next year's round of the ARC Discovery Projects scheme. The 2023 ARC Discovery grants were distributed in all states ...

ANU experts have chosen ‘teal’ as the 2022 Word of the Year, following independent candidates scooping away eight Liberal seats across NSW and ACT during the federal election. Usually associated with dark greenish-blue colour or a breed of duck. In ...

University researchers from UNSW, ANU and the University of Melbourne have been recognised for their excellence at Australia’s most prestigious science awards. The 23rd Annual Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, held on Monday evening, recognised outstanding work from the nation’s ...

Labor's newly-announced Universities Accord will tackle equity, accessibility and casualisation in the nation's first major review of higher education policy since 2008. On Wednesday, Education Minister Jason Clare announced the details of the Australian Universities Accord, saying it will be ...

Following the review of the Australian Research Council Act, the government is now seeking feedback from academics and researchers before its final report in March 2023. The consultation papers, open until mid-December, have identified nine major points to improve grant ...

Monash University has run away with the honours in The Australian’s 2023 list of the nation’s top researchers and research institutions in 250 fields of academic endeavour. A Monash researcher was in first place in 31 of the research fields ...

Around 15,000 casual staff from the University of Melbourne will receive $22m in back payment after a new review revealed ongoing underpayment by the university over an eight-year period. The announcement made by Vice-Chancellor professor Duncan Maskell last week follows ...