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There’s no bronze for Australian subjects this year. The Swiss higher education system is now home to the third-highest number of departments among the top 10 in their discipline, relegating Australia to fourth place. It’s the first time Australia has not ...

While the nation awaits future policy directions on ‘post schooling’ education and training following the outcomes of the 2019 federal election, there are a number of Government initiated reviews and consultations ongoing, as well as other published independent policy proposals. ...

Academics at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing are pushing the boundaries with their latest innovation in nurse training. As part of their Star Trek-inspired Holodeck project, Associate Professor Winslow Burleson and his team are using headsets to ...

China’s Tsinghua University seems to be going from strength to strength, at least as far as university rankings are concerned. It nabbed the top spot on Times Higher Education’s (THE) list of Asia-Pacific universities, beating out National University of Singapore and ...

The deaths of notable figures this week might reveal a lot about the circles individuals watch most closely. The fashion-focused will be mourning the death of Karl Lagerfeld at 85. Fans of Grey Gardens will charge their glasses for one of the people behind the ...

A system that takes stock of a student’s online learning activities and predicts the risk of academic failure is on the horizon. It’s part of a project that aims to curb the number of students who drop out of online courses, ...

Charles Sturt University won’t change its name but will get a lick of paint. The university announced earlier this year that it was considering changing from its current name to simply Sturt University (SU), among other suggestions. It subsequently held ...

How many of you still remember that teacher of your college days who had more to offer than just nondescript, soporific lectures – that teacher who held your attention throughout class with humour and levity? I’m sure many of you ...

A lot has been written (often negatively) about the effects of online technology on communication, with emoticons, emojis and abbreviations like LOL taking the place of the non-verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures and laughter that are available to ...

RUDD SLINGS TO SINGAPORE Professor Chris Rudd has gone west – from China to Singapore. The former provost of the University of Nottingham’s Ningbo campus in the coastal province of Zhejiang, near Shanghai, has made the island city-state his new ...