Australia is now ranked fifth in the world according to the number of highly cited researchers in the science and social sciences fields. Published by analytics company The Web of Science Group, the list of Highly Cited Researchers identifies the number ...

Laureates of Australian literature including Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee and Miles Franklin winner Charlotte Wood have declared their support for UWA Publishing in a defiant and impassioned open letter. The organisation’s future is in jeopardy following a shock announcement from ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan is visiting both Malaysia and India with the aim of creating new job and business opportunities for Australians in the education sector. "Strengthening Australia's relationship with other countries will benefit our education system with flow-on ...

Funding is the lifeblood of academic research and the Australian Research Council (ARC) late last week announced the Linkage Project grants, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards and the Future Fellowship grants. Monash University and the University of Melbourne were awarded ...

Syracuse University in the US has suspended the social activities of its fraternities following a string of racist and anti-Semitic incidents. The move follows student protests over concerns of inaction regarding a slew of reports of racist comments and graffiti. ...

Universities have agreed to take on greater responsibilities to safeguard against foreign interference through new guidelines developed with government. Among the prompts laid out in the guidelines were that universities support staff to be mindful of foreign interference risks when collaborating ...

Murdoch University is setting its sights on a vertical campus in Perth’s CBD. The university announced it was seeking expressions of interest for the development. Chief operating officer Darren McKee said the move would enhance Murdoch’s appeal to domestic and international students. ...

The annual snapshot of short-term graduate outcomes has been released by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), measuring key areas such as full-time employment, overall employment, labour force participation, median full-time salaries, further study outcomes and graduate satisfaction. Labour ...

No matter what section of society you speak to, there seems to be a sense of pity felt for K-12 teachers. After all, they teach our youth through much of their most difficult years and cop their fair share of ...

How much do you earn? Have you ever had sex on campus? These are not questions teachers often welcome from their students but theatre department producer at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, Shawn Belyea, copped them from student Matthew ...