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A barrister who donated $10 million to the University of Melbourne has been appointed as its next chancellor. Allan Myers has also been chair of the university’s 'Believe' philanthropic campaign since it commenced in 2013. He chipped in the $10 ...

Donald Trump’s election to the White House and the UK’s Brexit from the European Union has accelerated Australia’s pivot to Asia, the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales has said. Professor Ian Jacobs said that universities switching their ...

The innovation debate has been hijacked by the tech start-up space, the federal assistant minister for industry, innovation and science told a conference. Speaking at the University of New South Wales’s Innovation Summit, Craig Laundy said discourse on how to ...

Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, urging him to personally intervene and fix supposed shortfalls in the VET student loans program. Shorten said that Turnbull policy’s approved course list is overly simplistic and “would have extreme ...

Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...

The Victorian government has today unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to ...

The University of Sydney has placed fourth in the world in the latest iteration of QS’s graduate employability rankings, putting it ahead of institutions like Cambridge University and the University of Oxford. Above of USYD were China’s Tsinghua University (3), the ...

Deciding on a collective noun for a group of chancellors was one of the pressing issues discussed at the recent Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit. Eventually, Monash University chancellor Simon McKeon, University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese, La Trobe ...

Two words, 10 syllables: 'transdisciplinary innovation'. It's the new buzz-phrase going around the University of Technology Sydney. So much so that the institution has created a whole new faculty dedicated to it. And what is transdisciplinary innovation? It’s when people from ...

With the University of Sydney strengthening its ties with China, as demonstrated by the opening of its first Chinese address at the beginning of November, USYD’s vice-chancellor has sought to play down concerns that Chinese soft power could be influencing ...