Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson said the peak body will continue to consult with government after Prime Minister Scott  Morrison said international students would have to guarantee their income for 12 months. Mr Morrison told a press conference on ...

The earliest known skull of the first human-like ancestors has been pieced together after researchers realised it wasn't a baboon. A team of international experts unearthed more than 150 pieces of the Homo erectus skull in the fossil-rich Drimolen cave ...

Forty of the world’s leading climate research universities have formed the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA) to fight climate change. The IUCA’s united goal is to ensure that governments, the public, media and industry have "better access to research-based facts ...

The University of New England is sharing lessons from its approach to online exams as institutions work to maintain schedules in a pandemic. Nearly two-thirds of UNE's subjects are already eligible for online examinations, and the university was moving to ...

Students at two of Australia’s highest-ranking universities are urging their peers to sign a petition to change the grading system this semester to either a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’. As universities across Australia and the world turn to online learning amid ...

The federal government JobKeeper wage subsidy announced on Monday to help businesses retain workers during the COVID-19 economic downturn must be extended to the tertiary sector, says the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). The union warns tens of thousands of ...

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Australia’s peak body for independent providers in the higher education, vocational education, training and skills sector has put a number of measures to government amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Independent Education Council of Australia (ITECA) said it’s “facing a challenge” ...

Australian infectious disease researchers are trialling a vaccine against COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Professor Kathryn North, director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), today announced the multi-centre randomised controlled clinical trial of a tuberculosis vaccine to test whether it ...

The University of South Australia has confirmed it will assist the state’s schools to transition to online learning, after an announcement by South Australian Minister for Education John Gardney yesterday. Professor Shane Dawson, UniSA’s Head of School for Education, contends ...