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The University of Melbourne is continuing its steady climb up the global university rankings. This time, it came in at 31 on the 2016 Performance of Scientific Papers for World Universities – published by the National Taiwan University. The NTU ranking, ...

“What is a university if it's not a cultural collision?” That’s Jonathan Mills, eight-time director of the Edinburgh International Festival and a University of Melbourne vice-chancellor’s fellow. Mills has turned the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus into a precinct of ...

Tax time can be a time of dread for many of you university staff members, as you try to sift through boxes of receipts to work out what deductions you can claim on your tax return. You aren’t alone. In fact, ...

It is difficult to imagine a group of people more stricken by the UK’s vote to leave the EU than the 5200 people from 80 countries who assembled for the recent European Association for International Education (EAIE) conference. Laura Howard, ...

UC picks gender equity leader The University of Canberra has appointed women’s advocate, journalist and ABC News presenter Virginia Haussegger to the new position of director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation. The gender-equality initiative will be based within UC’s ...

University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese has confirmed UQ won’t divest from the $6.4 million it holds in fossil fuel shares as it “would make no real difference”. He also criticised Queensland University of Technology, which announced divestment last month, for ...

English has always extended itself with words from other languages. Recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have a certain East Asian flavour to them. Literally, in some cases, with the inclusion of plenty of culinary words such as ...

Four experts now have the onerous task of sifting through more than 1200 submissions made in response to the federal government’s higher-education discussion paper that was released on Budget night. Andrew Norton, the Grattan Institute’s higher-education program director; Mitchell Institute ...

A Freedom Of Information (FOI) investigation by Channel 7’s Sunday Night program has revealed only 2 per cent of reported sexual misconduct cases in universities led to the alleged perpetrator being removed from the institution. The numbers are likely just the ...

Circus arts, life coaching and butler service management are among hundreds of vocational courses deemed unlikely to lead to realistic job placements to be defunded under the federal governments new plans for the VET financing system. Following a review into the ...