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A Sydney law school is suing the Australian National University over the name of its law faculty. The College of Law, based at St Leonards, claims ANU has infringed the college’s trademark by calling the university’s law faculty ANU College ...

Sydney University’s vice-chancellor, Dr Michael Spence, has emailed students at the university to reassure them he is working to put an end to the inappropriate behaviour exhibited by some members of St John’s College. Spence advised that any student feeling ...

It has been harder to get a grant in many areas, but the success rate is up for those who try The British research councils’ efforts to limit demand for research grants appear to be working, with success rates improving ...

The 25-metre Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the world’s biggest optical telescope, has reached a milestone in construction. The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Arizona has finished polishing the first of its seven 8.4m-diameter mirrors. Australian National University (ANU) is leading ...

Universities are concerned by the lack of specifics in the government’s new plans for academic expansion into Asia, reports The government’s Australia in the Asian Century white paper outlines how the nation must engage with Asia to take advantage of ...

Eating fish, particularly oily fish, a couple of times a week may help reduce risk of stroke, but fish oil supplements don’t have the same effect, a UK study has found. University of Cambridge researchers analysed 38 studies involving almost ...

Men can tolerate more pain than women and are less likely to let on that they are suffering, scientists claim. Researchers from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK found that men tend to act stoically when they are hurt, whereas ...

Smokers take two to three more sick days per year than non-smokers, costing the UK billions of pounds in loss of productivity, according to researchers from the University of Nottingham. The report, published in the journal Addiction, analysed 29 separate ...

A recent report warns of the consequences of ignoring educational globalisation, but universities say they’re already changing The Ernst & Young report University of the Future states that “there’s not a single Australian university that can survive to 2025 with ...

Brisbane’s metropolitan TAFEs face amalgamation, for better or for worse. But Australia needs vocational training more than ever. These are interesting times for VET providers nationally, and Queensland is no exception. There are so many uncertainties around government subsidies (VET ...