School leavers who are hoping to study humanities will either have to foot a bill double that of their predecessors or pick different subjects under a new scheme announced by Education Minister Dan Tehan. Under the plan, the government will ...

Australia’s peak body for the independent tertiary education sector is urging the government to retain the JobKeeper initiative, saying it has played a critical role in securing the sector. The Independent Tertiary Council of Australia (ITECA) said the initiative has ...

It’s low-cost and widely available and yet dexamethasone is the drug that has researchers' tongues wagging after a UK trial showed it reduced deaths among COVID-19 patients. In trial results that scientists called a “major breakthrough”, a low dose of ...

Charles Sturt University will slash around 13 per cent of its current slate of subjects, bringing its 2019 offering of 4751 subjects down by 600. The news came on the back of a projected 2020 budget deficit for the university ...

Following on from the Chinese Education Bureau recently warning Chinese students about racist incidents occurring at Australian universities, the world’s most populous country is now set on expanding its own university sector. This comes after Australian universities have increased their ...

The chair of the NSW Education Standards Authority has criticised the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank for distorting both the final years of schooling and students’ subject choices. Professor Peter Shergold, the chancellor of Western Sydney University, is currently chairing a ...

A new study has found that girls as young as four can both overcome educational disadvantage and feel empowered to participate in STEM-based activities through emphasising play-based learning. Researchers at Monash University found that girls’ “thoughts and actions are endorsed ...

News broke this week that China issued a warning to citizens intending to travel to Australia to “exercise caution” and conduct a “good risk assessment” due to racism against people of Asian descent, but Australian pundits have rejected the claims. ...

A concerning new report from the Australian National University (ANU) shows Australians are drinking more frequently than before. While anecdotal evidence of increased alcohol consumption during social isolation has existed on social media posts and rises in alcohol sales, this ...

If a newly released global ranking of universities was a game of Moksha Patam, teaching capacity and graduate employability would be Australia's snakes and relative research impact and internationalisation its ladders. Higher education consultancy QS Quacquarelli Symonds today released the ...