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University of Queensland researchers have linked ADHD and conduct disorder (CD) to a trajectory of disadvantage, as these children are more likely to drop-out of high school and not enrol in tertiary education. A study published in the Journal of ...

The University of Melbourne is continuing its steady climb up the global university rankings. This time, it came in at 31 on the 2016 Performance of Scientific Papers for World Universities – published by the National Taiwan University. The NTU ranking, ...

“What is a university if it's not a cultural collision?” That’s Jonathan Mills, eight-time director of the Edinburgh International Festival and a University of Melbourne vice-chancellor’s fellow. Mills has turned the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus into a precinct of ...

University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese has confirmed UQ won’t divest from the $6.4 million it holds in fossil fuel shares as it “would make no real difference”. He also criticised Queensland University of Technology, which announced divestment last month, for ...

Four experts now have the onerous task of sifting through more than 1200 submissions made in response to the federal government’s higher-education discussion paper that was released on Budget night. Andrew Norton, the Grattan Institute’s higher-education program director; Mitchell Institute ...

A Freedom Of Information (FOI) investigation by Channel 7’s Sunday Night program has revealed only 2 per cent of reported sexual misconduct cases in universities led to the alleged perpetrator being removed from the institution. The numbers are likely just the ...

A good teacher must be an expert in their subject matter, but at least four other traits may be even more important. A survey of Australian students, parents, teachers, administrators and policymakers has revealed their ideas about the most important characteristics of an effective ...

Serious investigation into full-time employment pathways for casual academics was among key recommendations of a new report on producing gender equity in higher education. Women, Careers, and Universities: Where to from here? reinforces a hoard of other published literature that ...

There is a link between universities’ performance in pervasive global rankings charts and their use of social media to communicate with students, a representative from social media management site Hootsuite has argued. Ben Mulligan, marketing manager for Hootsuite Australia and New ...

The Grattan Institute’s higher education program director, Andrew Norton, expressed concern over the federal government’s cap on vocational student loans announced this week. He said the government's plan simply adapted Labor’s one-size-fits all cap into a "three- sizes-fit-all approach”. Earlier in ...