JCU Singapore VC retires James Cook University has announced the retirement of its deputy vice‑chancellor for the Singapore campus, Dr Dale Anderson. Anderson has served the university for 12 years, and will leave his role on December 31. Vice-chancellor Professor ...

The rapid and exponential growth of the internet over the past 40 years has changed the nature of society. Indeed, at the end of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the internet is our defining medium. This has ...

Against a backdrop of high-profile junior doctor suicides, Flinders University is introducing novelty into its medical degree. The Adelaide-based institution is piloting a music subject for second-year students, as part of the degree's new, mandatory personal and professional development stream. Its coordinators hope ...

You know a paper is almost certainly ethically clean when it undermines its affiliated institutions' business models. Notwithstanding the fact that two of its authors work at Go8 member UNSW, Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia? finds it ...

I never got to know Angel*. She would appear in my journalism class sporadically, and when she did, always sat by herself. She never spoke in class, unless spoken to by the lecturer. Then, she would reply in broken English, ...

We hear about their extreme highs and lows, but we don’t often hear the everyday thoughts of migrant and refugee young people in Australia. Not every one is a Duckie Thot or the victim of an unprovoked attack. There are Muhammads, ...

Yesterday, Xanana Gusmão's Alliance of Change for Progress (AMP) – an opposition coalition – clinched election victory in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor). Gusmão, Timor-Leste's first and fourth Prime Minister, is commonly viewed as a national hero, due to his resistance ...

The last time your partner or friend prepared a meal for you, did you thank them? If not, don't be alarmed. A new international study has shown this is the more common practice, and in fact, it's not necessarily bad. ...

Universities are increasingly investing in their campuses to attract foreign dollars. For as long as they have been in existence, universities have been in competition with one another for the best students and faculty. The earliest universities in the Middle ...

An education is one of the biggest investments a person will make, and never before has online research played such a crucial role in the decision-making process for eager students. According to EY’s digital strategy report, 94 per cent of people research ...