Very few people can say they’re ‘the best in the world’ at anything, but for Charles Sturt University Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition Sharynne McLeod, that’s exactly the case. A year after being named Australia’s leading researcher in her ...

The University of Melbourne offers Australia’s best MBA program, if a ladder by an international education thinktank is to go by. QS Quacquarelli Symonds named Melbourne Business School 26th in the world, seeing it extend its lead from last year ...

The centrality of creativity and the arts to learning and the future of the workforce is the focus of a new centre launched this week at the University of Sydney by award-wining playwright Wesley Enoch, and attended by roughly 100 ...

James Cook University has decided to appeal a Federal Circuit Court decision that would see the university pay $1.2m in compensation to sacked professor Peter Ridd. As a result, Ridd took to his GoFundMe page to raise money to cover ...

A joint venture between UTS and animation and digital production company Animal Logic has nabbed the top stop on two global tables. The UTS Animal Logic Academy (UTS ALA) was ranked first in Mobile – Production Excellence and Immersive Media ...

The Universities of Sydney and Melbourne have both retained their top 10 positions in the latest edition of a ranking of graduate employability. The 2020 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, compiled by higher education thinktank QS Quacquarelli Symonds, put USyd at ...

When making an important decision, it might be a good idea to head to the fridge first. Researchers at the University of Dundee have found that hunger significantly alters people’s decision-making, which can make them impatient and more likely to ...

Although many universities are no longer the elitist institutions they may have once been, there is little doubt that for some students – particularly those from disadvantaged or “equity” backgrounds – they still present a rigid “framework” that can detrimentally affect their ...

Legislation that will see universities taxed for the administration of students' access to the Higher Education Loan Program has passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The changes were expected to save the government $11.7 million in forward estimates. Speaking ...

Queensland University of Technology and the University of Canberra are the two latest Australian universities to reach the top 200 in a closely-watched ranking of world universities. Times Higher Education today published the 2020 edition of its World University Rankings. ...