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Australia has dominated one of the latest online university ratings reports, producing five of the 10 universities worldwide to receive a five-star plus report card under the QS Stars University ratings system. Australian National University, the University of Queensland, the ...

Former University of Newcastle vice-chancellor professor Nicholas Saunders has been named acting chief commissioner and CEO of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). In announcing the appointment, which comes as the government seeks to deliver sweeping higher education reforms, ...

Australian National University researchers have brought science fiction a step closer to reality after successfully creating what has been dubbed a tractor beam, using water flow patterns. By manipulating wave patterns in water, the team has been able to control ...

Australian academics have accused the government of overreaching in its push to extend anti-terror laws, saying there is insufficient evidence to justify many of the powers it hopes to grant the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Australian Federal Police. Last week, Prime ...

When researching their tertiary education futures, prospective students still value human contact as highly as any information or online resource, a new study has revealed. Students Online: Global Trends, which US-based university ratings service TopUniversities.com released last week, was based on ...

New research has bolstered evidence suggesting that one part of the human brain is better protected from ageing and cognitive deterioration than others. The study, conducted at the University of Adelaide, assessed visual and non-visual response to stimuli amongst a ...

A select group of Melbourne University students will soon be able to undertake paid part-time working hours in the classroom whilst completing their teaching degrees. Based on the paid intern model already used by university medical faculties across the country, ...

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has left the door open for alternatives to the government’s plan to charge students a higher interest rate on HECS-HELP repayments. In an address to the National Press Club yesterday in which he spruiked the virtues ...

Helping to ensure the 2 billion people expected to be added to the world’s population by 2050 have enough food is just one of the challenges set to be addressed by a new Centre of Excellence in Plant Biology research ...

Research institutions may soon be forced to prove they meet workforce gender equity policy standards in order to gain grant funding, under a proposal the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is touting. Discussion around the possible measure comes amid ...