Times Higher Education (THE) has released the latest batch of subject rankings, which included two top 20 spots for Australian universities. The University of Melbourne ranked first in Australia and 12th in the world for law – down two spots ...

MIT students are pushing their university to fire a professor who has ties with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Professor of mechanical engineering Seth Lloyd met with Epstein – a billionaire financier who was jailed in 2008 for soliciting ...

The government should call a water emergency in the Murray-Darling Basin, public policy experts say. ANU researcher Quentin Grafton says "rent-seeking" from special interest groups has led to the emergency. In a paper with fellow researcher John Williams released last ...

Two University of Melbourne students were pepper sprayed by Victorian police while reporting on protests at the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) yesterday. Three-hundred climate activists attempted to blockade the event on the third consecutive day of protests in ...

Students are deciding to study at TAFE rather than university for its merits – not as a "fallback". That was one of the findings to come from Monash University's Vocational Institutions, Undergraduate Degrees, Distinction or Inequality interim report. Among the reasons ...

Fewer individuals applied to universities in 2019, and fewer universities made offers according to the latest 2019 application and offers data released this week by Education Minister Dan Tehan.  The decrease in applications was 1.3 per cent following a decrease ...

Curtin University is Australia’s best young uni in the natural sciences, if a ranking of institutions under 50 years of age is to go by. Nature Index ranked Curtin 23rd in the world, above its closest homegrown competitors Queensland University of Technology (30) and ...

The Australian public is more likely to trust university researchers than banks, the government and the press. That was one of the findings to come from the 29th ANUpoll. The research team pitted researchers against a group of eleven occupations ...

A British charity is bankrolling an international effort to free more of the knowledge housed in education institutions and publishers. The $540,000 project, led by Curtin University, will bring together an alliance of researchers who will work to build universities ...

Australian universities will have to tick new research boxes to retain their status should proposed changes to category standards be adopted. The recommendations were made by former Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake in his review of the ways higher education providers ...