It started modestly, with a handful of people working 18-hour days to ready a makeshift campus for the first intake of 70 students in 1999. But 10 years later, Curtin Sarawak is a fully fledged greenfields campus replete with modern ...

Stalagmites may show how fast ice is melting Researchers may be able to establish how fast the world’s ice sheets are melting by studying rare preserved stalagmites in a coastal cave in Italy. The stalagmites provide a timeline of sea ...

Hawkins to Tokyo Professor Gay Hawkins from UNSW’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been given a visiting appointment at the University of Tokyo. Hawkins, a cultural studies expert in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, will ...

Visiting Taiwan for a conference, Simon Haines discovers the world’s true globalisers. Taiwan, like Hong Kong, is a small Chinese outrider, living on its wits and taking an anxious pride in its startling economic success and its tenuous political autonomy. ...

Foreign applications to US graduate schools grow slowly The number of Chinese and Middle Eastern students applying for admission to US graduate programs surged while applications from India and South Korea fell, according to a survey by the Council of ...

James Cook University was a beneficiary after a massive cane toad hunt in northern Queensland. The university took possession of dozens of toads following the inaugural Toad Day Out hunt in late March. The biggest specimens were given to a ...

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More flexibility, better employment prospects and improved student retention are the expected outcomes following a move by Swinburne University to adopt a new flexible majors and minors model of undergraduate education. The model, to be introduced at the beginning of ...

Europe’s Bologna process is more relevant than ever to Australia in the wake of the Bradley review, according to Macquarie University vice-chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz. The chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Bologna says Australia can’t afford to be ...