More than 90 per cent of James Cook University (JCU) staff have reported a lack of trust in the university management's capacity to make 'good decisions' about the institution's future. The JCU branch of the National Tertiary Education Union surveyed ...

James Cook University has returned sacred Indigenous artefacts back to their communities as part of a new, long-term repatriation project. Last week the university returned a boomerang, a stone axe-head, photographic slides and a group of bark paintings to representatives ...

Staff at five of Queensland's largest universities have announced plans to strike tomorrow as part ongoing industrial action to call for higher pay and improved workplace conditions. On Thursday, hundreds of staff from Queensland University, Griffith University, Queensland University of ...

It’s a perennial problem facing thousands of school leavers: should I stay or should I go? While many teenagers cannot wait to leave a small town like Mount Isa (population roughly 21,000), jumping into second-hand cars with their friends, giddy ...

“Corn? I don’t remember eating corn.” In research that Carol Channing – or the person who started the urban legend about her relaying that message from an auditorium toilet stall via hot mic – should relate to, a James Cook ...

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 ...

Former James Cook University professor Peter Ridd will line his pockets with $1.2 million from his former employer’s coffers should it decide not to appeal the Federal Court ruling. The marine scientist was dismissed by JCU in May last year. ...

A judge has ruled that James Cook University’s termination of Dr Peter Ridd’s employment was unlawful. The marine scientist was dismissed by JCU in May last year. In his view, it was because he “dared to fight the university and ...

In his LinkedIn profile photo, Weijing Wang resembles a typical businessman. He wears a fitted navy suit, a starched white shirt and a blue striped tie. He has his hands clasped in the typical head shot manner. His eyes are ...

The world's oldest universities weren't just sites of learning. They were also civic, religious and social institutions. Without Oxford, Bologna and Al-Karueein we wouldn't have modern-day ethics, or defences against bygone empires or the omniscient power of the medieval church. Universities were ...