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A piece of skin about the size of a thumbnail can be printed in less than a minute, scientists in Singapore say – a game-changing step for the future of non-animal testing for cosmetics and other products. Made up of skin ...

Universities across Australia are being targeted by cybercriminals more and more to gain access to private information. The recent attack on the Australian National University (ANU), which resulted in data and credential theft from the compromise of ANU’s network infrastructure, ...

Universities have agreed to take on greater responsibilities to safeguard against foreign interference through new guidelines developed with government. Among the prompts laid out in the guidelines were that universities support staff to be mindful of foreign interference risks when collaborating ...

Afghanistan will release two senior Taliban commanders and a leader of the Haqqani militant group in exchange for Australian professor Timothy Weeks and American colleague Kevin King, who were kidnapped in 2016. The government’s decision to free Anas Haqqani and ...

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 ...