The University of Sydney has secured a new study partnership with India’s O.P. Jindal Global University, signalling deepening education ties between the two nations.  Business students at JPG will be offered joint degrees to allow them to split their study ...

Increased post-study work rights for international students, changes to bargaining agreements, and better access to TAFE were major outcomes from last week’s Jobs and Skills summit.  Nearly 150 peak unions, business leaders and politicians gathered at Parliament House in Canberra ...

More than 80 per cent of Southern Cross University staff have reported experiencing psychosocial hazards resulting in high levels of stress and a decline in wellbeing, a union survey has found. A workplace survey conducted by the National Tertiary Education ...

A new underground physics lab in regional Victoria is setting Australian universities up in the race to unveil the secrets of dark matter, and potentially make the ‘discovery of the century’. Located in an active gold mine, the Stawell Underground ...

The University of Queensland has pledged to boost enrolment rates of First Nations, low socio-economic, regional and other disadvantaged students by 2032.  Speaking at the university’s new Brisbane campus last week, UQ vice chancellor professor Deborah Terry announced the new ...

The strategy to build six-month short courses, or microcredentials, into a new arm of Australia’s international education sector has received a boost from this week’s visit by Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Pradhan, who has held talks with the federal ...

Monash University is leading a DNA screening study that aims to detect inherited genes that increase the risk of cancers and eventually introduce a nationwide genetic screening program. The pilot project will be working in collaboration with researchers and clinicians ...

The University of Sydney has been hit with a federal lawsuit by a former staff member who claims he was discriminated against because of his race.  Award-winning Iranian-Australian philosopher and translator Professor Omid Tofighan filed a federal lawsuit against the ...

In the quest to send astronauts to Mars, ANU space medicine experts have developed modelling to predict the impact of prolonged exposure to zero gravity on the body. The model can be used to determine the impact of space flight ...

More than a quarter of staff at the University of New England have reported experiencing severe or extreme symptoms of anxiety, depression and/or burnout, a union workplace survey has found. The UNE branch of the National Tertiary Education Union surveyed ...