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The recently released Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings shows Australia has six universities in the top 100, which is up from four since last year. There are 19 local institutions in the THE rankings for 2012/13. Melbourne is ...

Former state and federal MP Rob Hulls has been appointed an adjunct professor and the inaugural director of the Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT. He studied law at RMIT before being admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor ...

Scientists at Melbourne’s RMIT University have designed a new chemical that targets and treats melanoma cells. In a biomedical engineering advance that could lead to more treatment options for skin cancer sufferers, researchers have designed a peptide that acts like ...

Professor Moira Clay has been announced as the new president of the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS). Clay is director of academic and research services at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Western Australia. She has been president-elect ...

The principal of James Nash State High School in Gympie has been made an honorary senior fellow of the University of the Sunshine Coast. Darren Edwards was recognised at USC’s graduation ceremony this month for his dedication to providing educational ...

Notre Dame has also appointed Professor Shelda Debowski as the new deputy vice-chancellor of the university and head of the Fremantle campus. Debowski has an extensive background in West Australian higher education. Her most recent role has been at the ...

The University of Notre Dame has appointed Professor Douglas Hodgson as dean of the school of law at the university’s Fremantle campus. Hodgson did a Bachelor of Laws at York University before completing a Master of Laws at the University ...

The former South Australian Supreme Court chief justice, John Doyle QC, will return to his alma mater, the University of Adelaide as an adjunct professor in the Law School. Doyle graduated from the university in 1966 and was the 1967 ...

Students have a heavy enough load without adding the wasteful burden of social networking. University students believe themselves to be Sisyphus. Condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill, a second-year arts/law undergraduate despairs – after all ...

The Friends of Victoria University group says the latest TAFE cuts announced by Victoria University (VU) will "impact most heavily" on those already disadvantaged. More than 13 full-time positions related to youth support and education will be cut at VU ...