Australia’s peak higher education body has called on the government to uncap university places for Indigenous peoples living in urban areas. Universities Australia said the move would help Australia achieve its target of having 70 per cent of First Nations ...

Tiffany Wright as Director of Education for Microsoft ANZ outlines how tech companies offer opportunities for partnership in the global mission to make education available to all.  The future of work is being increasingly influenced by and disrupted by technology and ...

Cash-strapped universities have been instructed to find new ways to make money to offset tumbling enrolments, as more school leavers choose work over study. Soaring living costs, especially rent, food and electricity, are forcing more Australian students to defer or ...

The University of Melbourne has achieved its highest-ever place in this year’s global higher education rankings, with three Australian universities breaking into the world’s top 20.  The annual QS World University Rankings ranked Melbourne University 14th globally and first in ...

Global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality have been underway for more than 10 years now, with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) celebrating its 10th anniversary in May 2023. This initiative and other related initiatives such as ...

The education and training sector reported the fifth highest number of cyber security incidents - andthe most ransomware incidents - of any industry sector in the 2021-22 financial year. It is particularly challenged by having a dynamic, highly distributed and ...

A group of former senior university executives are working to establish Australia’s first “lifestyle university” on the NSW Central Coast. The Chancellor Institute is chaired by former Sydney University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Emerita Ann Brewer and aims to raise $4.5M ...

Vice-Chair of the Declaration On Research Assessment Ginny Barbour has led global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality. Her aim has been to moderate commercially motivated efforts of commercial publishers to exploit science and publishing for their own commercial purposes. ...

The Albanese government should resurrect the 50-year-old policy of former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and abolish university fees, said University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell. In his annual vice-chancellor’s address on Tuesday, Professor Maskell said the reintroduction of university ...

The University of Sydney has introduced its first international space law course, opening the door to a range of research opportunities for scholars in the space arena. The new postgraduate unit, set to begin next semester, will explore the legal ...