Major changes to Twitter’s free speech and content moderation rules have presented new challenges for universities and academics. Last week, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk secured ownership of the world's largest social media platform, firing roughly half of Twitter's workforce and ...

Monash University has appointed former health and aged care minister Greg Hunt to be the chair of the Turner Advisory Council for Brain and Mental Health. The retired politician, who previously served under the previous Morrison government, will act as ...

James Cook University has returned sacred Indigenous artefacts back to their communities as part of a new, long-term repatriation project. Last week the university returned a boomerang, a stone axe-head, photographic slides and a group of bark paintings to representatives ...

One in six of academic staff and 42 per cent of students at the University of Tasmania experienced food insecurity in 2022, according to a new survey. The study, said to be the ‘first of its kind’ in Australia to ...

The University of New South Wales and Sydney University have been named as Australia's most sustainable universities, tying for fifth place in the latest global higher education rankings. Australia had 36 per cent of its universities appear in the top ...

Vocational education emerged as the centrepiece of the government’s higher education budget last night, with nationwide skills shortages and high cost-of-living tabled as key areas of priority.  Last night, the government set aside $1 billion dollars into TAFE and VET ...

Australia is failing to capitalise on the potential for international students to remain after they graduate and help alleviate technology skill shortages, according to new research by federal government agency Austrade. The 2022 Australian International Education Conference was told last ...

A new report calling for Australia’s schools and universities to remain open during future Covid-19 outbreaks has been critiqued for using “misleading” data. Last Thursday, a six-month independent review into Australia’s Covid-19 response led by Western Sydney University chancellor professor ...

Academics and language advocates across Australia are calling for a national strategy to renew domestic students' interest in foreign languages studies after data showed a drop in enrollments. Ten universities have backed up a new national campaign which invites students ...

The federal government has announced 20,000 extra funded places for universities in the next two years to tackle skill shortages across the country.  Education Minister Jason Clare channelled funding towards areas with “critical skills needs’’ such as teaching, nursing, IT, ...