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Professor Linda Shields from Charles Sturt University is a specialist in nursing ethics. She has co-written a book on the role of nurses in Nazi Germany’s forced euthanasia programs and recently authored an opinion paper on the role of nurses ...

The Australian National University has sprung up Times Higher Education’s ranking of the most international universities, coming in at number seven. However, there are large discrepancies in the chart when compared to last year’s list due to a change in methodology. Among local institutions, ...

For professor Tom Welton, diversity and inclusiveness are just good business. From 2007 to 2014, Welton was head of Imperial College London’s department of chemistry. When he came into this role, there were a lot of white men in leadership ...

Universities, locally and overseas, have issued statements condemning US President Donald Trump’s immigration ban of seven Muslim majority countries, as they say it will restrict the free movement of students and researchers. Universities Australia chief executive Belinda Robinson said this ...

The University of Queensland has scored $1.2 million for three research projects aimed at helping mining giants become more efficient. And the University of Wollongong was doled out $675,000 into a project that seeks to extend the life of railway ...

Three vice-chancellors have been recognised today by being inducted into the Order of Australia. University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence will now have AC after his name as a Companion of the Order of Australia. Spence received the honour ...

The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021, and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund. Allan Tait, UniMelb chief financial ...

Monash University has been given $14 million to boost the health of people living in slums around the world. The grant came from the philanthropic Wellcome Trust in the UK, and was only one of four grants awarded from 600 ...

For entrepreneur Bevis Cheng, failure is much more interesting than success. “It really shapes the way you think about things, the way you approach things, what you could do differently, what you could do better,” Cheng says. “I mean everybody ...

Governments, universities and students should not use international rankings to make decisions about higher education, a new report from the UK has said. International university rankings: For good or ill, from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), argues that the ...