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Universities “are, and always will be, bigger than the nation state” said incoming chair of Universities Australia (UA) professor Margaret Gardner to the lobby group’s annual conference today. She implored its member institutions to rally against the waves of populist ...

The late Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former chief executive, is one of several people who are legendary for being wildly successful, but dropping out of university. And in Australia, the 17-year-old Taj Pebari runs his own tech start-up, Fifty ...

Universities Australia (UA) has unveiled its new Indigenous education strategy, the centrepiece of which is to grow Indigenous enrolment rates so they reflect the Indigenous proportion of the total population. Currently Indigenous students represent 1.6 per cent of the current ...

“If you're a straight person, you don't actually have to come out and tell a person that you're straight.” But if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer, it’s a different story. That’s how Mark Smith, executive officer to ...

A female student was raped by a male student at a university party. Afterwards, she reported the matter to campus security. She was told by security that as there was no CCTV footage of the incident and that “it was ...

University students want to work for Google. The tech giant has just been voted the most desirable employer for the third year in a row by 14,000 students across 38 universities. Joining Google in the top 10 of GradAustralia’s list ...

Research from South Australia’s universities has found that 51 per cent of school leavers have trouble deciding on what to study at university. The study, supported by the federal Department of Education, surveyed year 12 students from 67 high schools ...

The decision handed down by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to reduce Sunday and public holiday penalty rates is likely to hurt the hip pocket of students, many of whom work in the industries affected. On Thursday 23 February 2017, ...

It’s a common move for Year 12 students to take easier mathematics courses in order to maximise their ATAR. Now an expert from the University of Sydney warns this practice could become commonplace in English, thanks to the reforms of ...

Universities will receive a share in $1.9 million in funding if the federal government considers them well placed to train cyber-security specialists. Federal education minister Simon Birmingham and Dan Tehan, minister assisting the prime minister for cyber security, have today ...