Curtin University has joined forces with the University of Aberdeen and the University of Calgary to tackle global environmental issues as part of a new tripartite alliance.  The alliance aims to develop innovative solutions to climate change, energy transition and ...

Staff at the University of Newcastle will be on the picket lines today over job security, fair pay and safe working conditions after the union said management had been “dragging” negotiations.  The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said members of ...

A ghostwriter who has written thousands of essays for students at major Australian universities is highlighting the issue of contract cheating, saying he worries about medical students who have never completed an assignment. For more than five years, the Kenyan ...

A key federal government research body, the National Health and Medical Research Council, has struck a blow for open inquiry by requiring all scholarly work it funds to be freely available as soon as it is published. The new rule, ...

A hundred mid-career researchers from 21 Australian universities have received a grant through the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships scheme to develop research of national interest.  Funded by the Australian Government, the Future Fellowships scheme focuses on mid-career researchers from ...

The University of Sydney’s student newspaper has received mixed reviews over its provocative front page coverage of the Queen’s death. The front page of Honi Soit bore the headline “Queen dead, Charles next”, with a photoshopped image of the Queen lying in ...

Australia’s technology universities have called on the Albanese government to sidestep current constraints on spending with a “long-term and progressive plan of action” to improve post-school education. The Australian Technology Network, representing six universities, said the government should build on ...

For the 17th consecutive year The Good Universities Guide has named Bond University as Australia’s number one tertiary institution for educational experience. Bond University ranked first in all six categories of educational experiences which includes learning resources, skills development, learner ...

Indigenous figures have reacted to the death of Queen Elizabeth II by examining the legacy of her 70-year reign over Australia. Britain’s longest reigning monarch died on Thursday evening in Scotland at the age of 96. Her legacy was complicated, ...

The University of Sydney has been ranked among the world’s most sustainable higher education institutions in the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index. Produced anually by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), the Sustainable Campus Index uses a using a rating ...