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Half of the academics surveyed by Times Higher Education (THE) on the shift to online learning due to the coronavirus pandemic say it has had a negative effect on their mental health. The survey brought together the views of 520 ...

Now is the time when all of our universities have more opportunity and need to explore, and counter, disruptive transformations to the higher education business model than ever before.

Australian academic Sean Turnell, who was an economic adviser to Myanmar’s overthrown leader, has been detained following the military coup. The development comes just days after former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested. The Macquarie University professor began living ...

Assertions that there is little encouragement by city-based universities to encourage their medical students to seek training and employment in rural areas is simply incorrect

Researchers from the University of Queensland believe they may have found a root cause of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A breakthrough study by UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute has discovered a new 'seeding' process in brain cells which could help us ...

The Australian National University has appointed Professor Michelle Ryan as the inaugural director of the university’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL). The institute was founded and chaired by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and is the first “sister” ...

It was used as a weapon against media by former US President Donald Trump and it’s “here to stay” – fake news was voted word of the decade. A team from Macquarie University asked Australians to choose from a shortlist ...

This article has two purposes. The first is to summarise the Productivity Commission’s Report on the National Skills and Workforce Development Agreement which has just been released with little fanfare in the heat haze of the summer holidays. As yet, there ...

Researchers from the University of NSW have developed a biosecurity program they say could have prevented COVID-19 and believe it will be instrumental in thwarting future pandemics. UNSW’s head of biosecurity research, Raina MacIntyre, has spearheaded an intelligence program called Epiwatch that ...

New figures released by Universities Australia show 17,300 jobs were lost in the university market in 2020 along with an estimated $1.8 billion in revenue compared to 2019. UA CEO Catriona Jackson said the operating revenue of Australian universities dropped ...