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An esteemed human rights barrister will tonight deliver the University of Melbourne school of government’s 2015 Hamer Oration. Under the theme of What sort of country are we, Julian Burnside QC will critically examine Australia’s attitude towards human rights and ...

Despite tough new standards for undergraduate teaching degrees New South Wales HSC students are being encouraged to consider a career in teaching. Adrian Piccoli, New South Wales education minister wants high achieving HSC students to consider becoming a teacher. But ...

An Australian National University defence policy expert is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reconfigure national defence priorities closer to home. Dr John Blaxland, senior fellow at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said what happens in the immediate ...

University of Sydney researchers are conducting the first-ever count of Australians living alone with dementia, in an effort to better understand their experiences. Estimates suggest almost 70,000 Australians – or a third of people with dementia not in aged care ...

With a tumultuous year coming up, it’s more important than ever that students’ needs and desires guide the way. In Queensland universities, leaders are looking to a ‘cliff year’ on the horizon, and considering how best to chart a course ...

Labor’s new higher education policy should not wipe the HELP debts of STEM graduates, a policy expert has claimed. In his mixed critique of Labor’s new policy, Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, said ridding 100,000 ...