Engineering and defence efforts at universities are ramping up as vice-chancellors, educators and the federal government look to build a nuclear submarine-ready workforce. The University of New South Wales launched its Nuclear Innovation Centre last Thursday, a hub where engineering, ...

Australia’s top universities have slid down the most recent world university rankings; however, experts say the popular rankings shouldn’t be the sole barometer of overall success. Times Higher Education (THE) published its 20th edition World University Rankings this year in ...

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) will face legal action by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) for allegedly failing to pay casual staff and keep accurate payslip records in March 2018. The investigation commenced in 2020 after the university's ...

Staff at the University of New South Wales have gone on strike today to secure more permanent roles for casual academic and professional staff. After a year of delayed negotiations, hundreds of UNSW staff and students will be on the ...

Australian universities have begun a pivot towards nuclear industry courses in what will be a decades-long effort to supply the skills required to build, operate and maintain a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. Currently only two universities do in-depth research and ...

The University of NSW will deliver a massive 17 per cent stipend increase to research students next year as part of a plan to ensure that they earn the equivalent of a living wage by 2024. Students holding higher degree ...

The University of New South Wales and Sydney University have been named as Australia's most sustainable universities, tying for fifth place in the latest global higher education rankings. Australia had 36 per cent of its universities appear in the top ...

The level of student cheating at the University of NSW exploded to an “alarming” level during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of serious plagiarism cases investigated up by 71 per cent to 769 last year compared with the previous ...

A hundred mid-career researchers from 21 Australian universities have received a grant through the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships scheme to develop research of national interest.  Funded by the Australian Government, the Future Fellowships scheme focuses on mid-career researchers from ...

Australian universities have shone in the latest Shanghai Rankings, with UNSW maintaining its run of having the highest number of academic disciplines ranked worldwide. This year's Global Rankings of Academic Subjects ranked more than 5,000 universities across 96 countries and ...