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The Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, has been appointed as the inaugural chair of the advisory board of Curtin University’s Law School. The Legal Practice Board of WA approved the four-year Bachelor of Laws degree proposal in September. ...

Australian researchers have made further advances in treating cervical disease that may greatly improve survival rates. Painful surgical procedures to treat cervical cancer could soon be a thing of the past as researchers from Griffith University have developed a new ...

A team of researchers at the University of Sydney has developed a new technique in which disease-causing bacteria become fluorescent, making deadly germs visible. The new detection technique currently under development at the Faculty of Pharmacy, aims to prevent the ...

It is disappointing that Labor and Coalition MPs joined ranks to claw back this money from low-income students already struggling to make ends meet in full-time study. Greens higher education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon commenting on the government’s decision to ...

A survey of 3500 first-year science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students found engineering students at Australian universities were the least satisfied with the quality of teaching. Compared with students in other STEM courses, the budding engineers were more inclined ...

One of our Nobel laureates says the research grant system is much more cumbersome than those overseas and needs streamlining. The efficiency of the Australian research grant system has been called into question by Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt who ...

State legislation to strip university councils of staff and student representatives has the backing of universities across Victoria, says the Minister for Innovation, Louise Asher. With the exception of the University of Melbourne, Asher’s comments to State Parliament suggest that ...

Western Union Business Solutions has entered into a partnership with ChinaPay to enable universities and higher education institutions around the world, including Australia, to accept international tuition and student fees in the Chinese Renminbi. Together ChinaPay, the online payments subsidiary ...

Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith has been appointed executive director (research operations) at the University of Tasmania. Clyde-Smith has worked in research strategy, management and other roles at the University of Queensland and the UK universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Sheffield. She ...

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 ...