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Monash University crashed into deficit last year and expects another deficit in 2023 after recording healthy surpluses in the first two years of the Covid pandemic. In a message to staff last Friday vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner said the university’s 2022 ...

Scott Pulsipher President of the world’s largest fully online university in Western Governors University (WGU) shares the story of a unique purpose and business model. He outlines a relentless focus on outcomes for students as the big idea that emerged from ...

Australia has ranked fourth in the world for having the highest number of ranked university subjects in the latest QS World University Rankings. Released last week, this year's ranking covered 54 disciplines and analysed over 5,700 academic programs across 1,594 universities in  93 ...

The Australian tertiary education sector is one of the nation’s largest exports, generating close to $30 billion in export income. The sector also employs more than 250,000 people and has more than four million enrolments. Tertiary education plays a significant ...

Australian researchers have developed a new type of AI-enabled interface that allows the use of mind control to operate robots. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) said the technology, still in its early stages, has “vast potential” to ...

More than 90 per cent of James Cook University (JCU) staff have reported a lack of trust in the university management's capacity to make 'good decisions' about the institution's future. The JCU branch of the National Tertiary Education Union surveyed ...

The Productivity Commission says earning a degree has worthwhile benefits for “marginal” students who only just make it into university, a finding that backs its case for expanding the number of university places. In its Five-year Productivity Inquiry report, released ...

The Universities Accord is open for consultation at an intriguing and dynamic time for the sector.  It is inviting big ideas for higher education over a 20-to-30-year time horizon, at a stage when broader change and societal and economic transformation ...

OpenAI has released a powerful new version of artificial intelligence program ChatGPT, capable of passing the US bar exam and coding entire video games within minutes.  GPT-4, launched March 17, is similar to its predecessor in that it uses generative ...

University researchers will investigate the effects vaping on teenagers and launch a 'world first' trial to help treat drug-resistant epilepsy as part of the latest funding round for medical research. Through its Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), the Australian government ...