Australia no longer sits among the top five in a ranking of the world’s best countries for graduate employability – but it’s still seen as an attractive option for students. The 2020 Global University Employability Rankings, designed by French HR ...

University of Sydney academics have launched a campaign against their employer’s decision to cut jobs in medical science fields. The cohort believes USyd is making almost two dozen of its medical science academics redundant “under false pretences”. The Defend Medical ...

The latest Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) report shows an unsurprising decline in employment for higher education graduates over the last 12 months, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey, which was released on ...

A high school in Adelaide’s northern suburbs and a Flinders University campus will be closed for deep cleaning after students at both facilities tested positive to COVID-19. It was announced on Tuesday that a student from the Roma Mitchell Secondary College ...

Much has been said of the significant impact COVID-19 has had on international student recruitment, and the reliance of universities in particular on foreign students. But what happens next for the tertiary education sector? With border closures and a lack ...

Australia has just nine years before exceeding its Paris Accord commitments at current emission rates, a leading climate expert has warned. Professor Mark Howden, director of the Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute, said although thinking on climate change had “turned a corner” in the past ...

Queensland researchers are asking Australians to brainstorm ideas for a project that aims to ensure people with dementia get home safely after they go missing. Dr Margaret MacAndrew from QUT and the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration said her study ...

The Victorian government will invest $155 million to establish an Australian Institute of Infectious Disease in Melbourne. Premier Daniel Andrews made the funding announcement, which will form part of this month’s state budget, on Friday morning. The total cost of ...

New modelling by education policy think tank Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows a 50 per cent drop in Australia’s international student numbers by mid-2021 if the country’s borders remain closed. The 50 per cent drop, which equates to roughly ...

It’s possible 100,000 Australian students will be unable to travel overseas to study due to travel restrictions in 2020 and 2021. That’s the estimate consultancy firm Studymove put forward on the back of its survey of university students, commissioned by ...