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Murdoch University is setting its sights on a vertical campus in Perth’s CBD. The university announced it was seeking expressions of interest for the development. Chief operating officer Darren McKee said the move would enhance Murdoch’s appeal to domestic and international students. ...

FRESH FROM RIO Dr Xiaoling Liu has been announced as QUT’s new chancellor. A former president and CEO of Rio Tinto Minerals in the United States, gaining her PhD at Imperial College London and completing her Bachelor of Engineering in ...

How much do you earn? Have you ever had sex on campus? These are not questions teachers often welcome from their students but theatre department producer at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, Shawn Belyea, copped them from student Matthew ...

Times Higher Education (THE) has released the latest batch of subject rankings, which included two top 20 spots for Australian universities. The University of Melbourne ranked first in Australia and 12th in the world for law – down two spots ...

A balanced diet has always been the pathway to good health. Yet anxieties about it have fuelled the unstoppable growth of complementary medicines and “functional foods”, called nutraceuticals (the standard spelling) – rather than nutriceuticals, as you might expect, if ...

Today’s students have clear expectations when it comes to their education, yet many Australian higher education providers are seemingly unable to effectively gauge or respond to those views. In a time of enrolment-based funding, it’s more important than ever to ...

Universities, private schools and solar and wind farms in Victoria should pay council rates instead of receiving exemptions, the state’s local governments believe. The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) has made the proposal in a submission to the state government’s ...

MIT students are pushing their university to fire a professor who has ties with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Professor of mechanical engineering Seth Lloyd met with Epstein – a billionaire financier who was jailed in 2008 for soliciting ...

Higher education is in the midst of a revolution. Mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances and digital transformations are dramatically reshaping the industry. It’s a time of almost unprecedented change. In the US, the number of higher education mergers and acquisitions has ...

The government should call a water emergency in the Murray-Darling Basin, public policy experts say. ANU researcher Quentin Grafton says “rent-seeking” from special interest groups has led to the emergency. In a paper with fellow researcher John Williams released last ...