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University students would no longer get a 10 per cent discount if they pre-pay their course fees under a new government proposal. A measure abolishing the discount is contained in a bill introduced to Parliament yesterday. Under existing arrangements, as explained by the government's ...

  Robots will get young people back on the farm, a University of Sydney roboticist has said. Australia’s agriculture sector is facing an ageing population and Australian Bureau of statistics figures show that since 1980, the number of people in ...

Torrens University Australia shouldn’t receive public funding, the Greens have argued. In legislation recently passed through Parliament , Torrens University Australia has been listed as a Table B provider – meaning it’s eligible for public research funding. The Greens attempted to ...

The federal government has launched a match-making website where companies can search all the intellectual property patents Australia’s universities and public research bodies hold. The assistant minister for innovation, Wyatt Roy, launched Source IP in late November. It was developed ...

“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women.” That quote from Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be US Secretary of State, was Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek’s message at the launch of a University of Melbourne program ...

The University of New South Wales has established a university presence on a high school campus. Matraville Sports High School, in Sydney’s south-east, has donated a building to the university to create a centre where pre-service teachers can work directly ...

UTS led seven other young local institutions in the latest ranking of the top 50 universities worldwide less than 50 years old, giving Australia the most places of any country in the index. In the list, compiled by rankings agency QS and spearheaded by Asian ...