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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 ...

Olivier Piguet knew something was wrong with his cousin Jacques. During a phone conversation, Olivier’s mother mentioned that Jacques, then a successful and well-liked optometrist in his local Swiss town, was acting peculiar. Suddenly rude to customers and falling out ...

Glaciers will melt faster than current models on climate change account for as algae blooms colonise them and reduce their ability to reflect the sun’s heat, scientists studying glaciers say. Glacial darkening is where deep purple, bulbous algae sprout on ...

Students are deciding to study at TAFE rather than university for its merits – not as a “fallback”. That was one of the findings to come from Monash University’s Vocational Institutions, Undergraduate Degrees, Distinction or Inequality interim report. Among the reasons ...

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has vowed to “circuit-break” a crisis in training and vocational education with a new federal agency targeting skills and workforce shortages. Albanese used his first major policy speech as opposition leader to promise to create Jobs ...

Curtin University is Australia’s best young uni in the natural sciences, if a ranking of institutions under 50 years of age is to go by. Nature Index ranked Curtin 23rd in the world, above its closest homegrown competitors Queensland University of Technology (30) and ...

A policy briefing paper about the nation’s emissions has been slammed as “ignorant and misleading” by the Clean Energy Council. The paper, released by two Australian National University experts, says the nation’s emissions will decline by as much as three ...

Apprentice carpenters will be able to tie an accountancy course into their studies to help them run a small business under proposed changes to the education sector. Reforms allowing students to mix and match a range of vocational and university ...