USC chooses new Chancellor Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston AK, AFC (Ret’d) will become the University of the Sunshine Coast’s new chancellor on April 1. Houston said he nominated for the role because he was impressed by USC’s positive ...

Freshwater takes reins at UWA The University of Western Australia has elevated one of its senior executives to vice-chancellor. Professor Dawn Freshwater, who was acting vice-chancellor after professor Paul Johnson announced his departure from the role, has been selected as ...

Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their students' backgrounds and not ...

Victoria University has confirmed that 115 jobs will be cut throughout the year as it establishes its planned First Year College. VU provost and deputy vice-chancellor professor Kerri-Lee Krause said 115 staff members “will exit the university over the course ...

For Andy Sheats, improving the student experience is tied to greater transparency in higher education. Recently announced as Open Universities Australia’s new executive general manager of student experience, Sheats wants to use data to help students make their study choices. ...

Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going on to work for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the precursor of the CSIRO. She was a staunch political ...

“If you're a straight person, you don't actually have to come out and tell a person that you're straight.” But if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer, it’s a different story. That’s how Mark Smith, executive officer to ...

University students want to work for Google. The tech giant has just been voted the most desirable employer for the third year in a row by 14,000 students across 38 universities. Joining Google in the top 10 of GradAustralia’s list ...

Research from South Australia’s universities has found that 51 per cent of school leavers have trouble deciding on what to study at university. The study, supported by the federal Department of Education, surveyed year 12 students from 67 high schools ...

Activists have claimed a University of Oxford building and turned it into a homeless shelter, just before it was to be redeveloped into student accommodation. At the feet of the “city of dreaming spires”, as poet Matthew Arnold once dubbed ...