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Learning isn't typically associated with danger, but that connection is increasingly palpable. Over the last five years, there have been over 12,700 attacks harming more than 21,000 students and educators. These statistics, courtesy of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from ...

Australia has once more scraped into the top fifth of a global ranking. Universitas 21 – a global network of 26 tertiary institutions founded by the University of Melbourne – has placed Australia 10th out of 50 universities. The researchers, from UniMelb's Melbourne Institute ...

A recent ABC Four Corners episode, I am that girl, shed light on the tricky nature of consent. Legally, it's not black and white. But Saxon Mullins, who says she was raped, wants it to be. Since her experience five years ago ...

Maryanne Demasi has been cleared of academic misconduct by an inquiry commissioned by her alma mater: the University of Adelaide. The medical scientist turned controversial science journalist, best known as the former presenter of ABC show Catalyst, had been accused of duplicating ...

If Labor is traditionally the party of spending, not scrimping, on popular areas, it has provided evidence for this. In opposition leader Bill Shorten's Budget reply last night, he announced a bounty for both universities and the VET sector. The ...

New life has entered the 'oldest scientific academy in continuous existence'. The London-based Royal Society has inducted fifty new Fellows and 10 new Foreign Members into its hallowed community for their "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, ...

While metropolitan and rural universities alike are, for once, mostly pleased with the Budget, students feel neglected. Tertiary institutions praised, among other measures, the boost in research funding. At the same time, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) lamented the ...

Redeeming themselves after last year's fall, Melbourne and Sydney have placed 3rd and 9th respectively in the QS Best Student Cities Ranking. Last year, global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds placed Melbourne 5th and Sydney 13th. Beating Melbourne were London (for the ...

Smartphone addiction is a familiar, modern-day concept. But why do some feel the need to constantly swipe and scroll, while others don't? Deakin University researchers may have some 'surprising' clues. Their study, just published in Computers in Human Behavior, surveyed 400 undergraduate students. ...

University of Sydney business students are set to rub shoulders and minds with some of the world's most innovative thinkers. In July, a group will venture to America to immerse themselves in its startup culture. Designed in collaboration with global ...