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Shaken by the COVID-19 induced collapse in international student revenue, campuses at Australian universities are buzzing with ideas about how they will survive in the future. Compounded by the pandemic, our higher education institutions are now even more dependent on ...

Flames that rose from announcements Australian National University and UNSW were planning staff cuts were fanned by news a US university’s Sydney campus was eligible for JobKeeper payments. This week, ANU vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt revealed the “painful” decision to cut ...

Scientists around the globe celebrated news the University of Oxford would restart the trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, but some called for more transparency surrounding the pause while others backed the decision to not detail the illness that prompted ...

Rhodes University in South Africa doesn’t throw its own hat in the rankings ring – but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it there. Drawing on publicly available data, many rankings bodies slot its name into their league tables, possibly ...

There is general consensus that Prensky (2001)[1] was correct in his view that there are digital natives and digital immigrants – and that such personas would impact on future notions of learning and subsequently teaching. I hasten to add that ...

COVID-19 has caused a brutal reappraisal of the value of higher education and the university business model. Universities Australia estimates a revenue shortfall of up to $4.5 billion in 2020 with international student demand dropping by up to 50 per ...

University of Sydney researchers are drawing the public’s attention to a slow-moving and often overlooked invertebrate that plays a significant role in ecosystems – the snail. They’ve produced the Urban Field Naturalist Guide to Snail Homing, a new how-to that ...

In October 2019, my colleague and I wrote a commentary in The Australian about the need for Australian universities to prepare and safeguard offshore students who are affected by political unrest. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 further exposes that many ...

Twelve Australian universities have ranked in the top 200 on a 2021 ladder – more than any other year. Times Higher Education (THE) today announced the results of its World University Rankings 2021. Of the Australian universities to rank in ...

University of Sydney staff are being asked to raise their hand for redundancy. In an email to staff sent Tuesday afternoon, vice-chancellor Michael Spence said he was seeking expressions of interest in voluntary redundancies among continuing staff and those on ...