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Former attorney-general and UK high commissioner George Brandis has been appointed as professor of national security, law and policy at the Australian National University. The now-retired politician accepted the distinguished position after serving four years as Australia's high commissioner to ...

Melbourne University's Business School has been recognised for having the most prestigious executive MBA program in Australia for the third year in a row. The sixth round of the QS Global Executive MBA Rankings, released yesterday, recognised only five Australian ...

It’s around a cup of coffee at Victoria University that Dr Yanni Bouras and his team decided to develop a way to transform takeaway coffee cups into concrete, with the aim of reducing landfill waste.  Bouras, a lecturer in built ...

Online education's journey to becoming core to the whole university – and to all students who make their own choice of how, when and where to gain access to inclusive excellence – is a pointer to the future for hybrid ...

The University of Virginia in the US has repatriated seven sacred Indigenous objects to central Australia. The materials were collected by a delegation of Warlpiri men from Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, from an Adelaide museum last week. This follows ...

The recently released QS World Rankings 2023 leaves much to consider. At the global level, there is increased competition and engagement in the rankings. It includes 1422 universities in 2023 compared to 1300 in the 2022 QS rankings. By broad ...

Melbourne university students, affiliates and alumni have now the opportunity to bring their research to life thanks to two major funding partnerships, which UniMelb calls a first in Australia at this scale.  The university has secured two partnerships with Breakthrough ...

With the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, universities have been forced to undertake online examinations which has made it easier for students to cheat.  According to Associate Professor from the University of South Australia Christopher Deneen, students cheating on ...

An RMIT lecturer who likened teaching to "going to war" has lost his appeal to overturn a dismissal from workplace regulators. Engineering lecturer Dr Amir Reza Zokaei Fard filed an unfair dismissal case to the Fair Work Commission in January ...

Young men are enrolling in university at lower rates than women, and are more likely to fail the majority of their first-year course subjects, University Admissions Centre (UAC) data has shown. A recent UAC analysis looked at first-year university grade ...