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A cane toad pioneer, an innovator who developed a $100 million software program that detects stock market fraud, a researcher looking to re-engineer peptides and protein into cures for diseases, and a conservationist working to help governments to find the ...

The university graduates of 2025 will be need to be socially intelligent, subject matter experts, independent learners, highly innovative, creative, and collaborative; they will need portable skillsets, a solid CV with relevant work experience and new media literacy. All this, plus they will need to ...

Federal Education Department data, released today at the Australian International Education Conference, revealed that international student numbers have grown by 11 per cent since last year. Steve Nerlich, director of the Education Department’s international research and analysis unit, said there are ...

Liveability and safety are the top reasons that international students come to Australia, new research from IDP Education has found, though priorities vary from state to state. The 'IDP Education Buyer Behaviour Study', which is a survey of 2800 international students ...

Greater Sydney Commission Chief Commissioner Lucy Turnbull has been appointed adjunct professor in the University of New South Wales Faculty of Built Environment. In her UNSW position, which will be concurrent with her Greater Sydney Commission role, Turnbull will present guest ...

The Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation – established by American duty-free shopping mogul Chuck Feeney – has made one of its last donations in Australia. It’s pledged US$50 million ($65.8 million) to establish a university fellowship dedicated to tackling social inequity. The ...

The University of Queensland has cracked the top ten in The Economist’s ranking of MBAs. UQ’s Business School is placed in spot number 10, on The Economist’s Which MBA? ranking chart, rising six places from last year. It’s followed by ...

Professor Desmond Ball, whom US president Jimmy Carter called the academic who saved the world, has died after battling a long illness. During the cold war, Ball advised Carter against launching nuclear strikes on Soviet targets. Afterwards, Carter wrote, “Desmond ...

Communication skills and work rights are two important subjects for international students. The founders of a new networking program are setting out to help them master both. Peer Camp is an international student networking start-up by Silva Wei and Stephen Zuluaga. ...

University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor professor Jan Thomas will step down at the end of the year to become head of New Zealand’s Massey University. Thomas is the second woman to be appointed vice-chancellor of Massey since it officially became a ...