The who, where and why of higher education attrition have been revealed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the higher education regulator. Its report details the latest dropout rates (from 2014) for first-year students from 130 providers. The ...

I’m not at all confident that the university or anything like its current form will be here for even 20 years. Australia has too many universities for its population. So what is the biggest shaping force in Australian higher education? ...

Disrupt or die seems to be the latest business mantra, and universities are on board. Specifically, the Group of Eight (Go8) universities have welcomed a landmark $200 million investment by UK-based IP Group, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company. The funds ...

Arizona Senator, chair of the US Armed Services Committee, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and Vietnam War veteran are all labels ascribed to John McCain. So too, now, is ANZUS alliance builder. Hosted by the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre ...

What will a reliable career look like in 2022? According to the Good Education Group’s 2017 Good Careers Guide, it will be in early education, special education, social work, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology. Though 30,000 positions will be ...

Funding for research will soon partly rely on how effectively researchers and universities engage with the community. This year, for the first time, the Australian Research Council (ARC) will pilot the measurement of public engagement and impact by university researchers ...

Fluoxetine, the antidepressant in drugs such as Prozac and Lovan, has been found to increase the risk of birth defects when taken during pregnancy. A meta-analysis of 16 studies, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, determined that fetuses ...

The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which hosts research into exotic livestock diseases, is just one facility flagged for upgrade under the government’s new National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. In it, chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel, the Roadmap’s chairman, identified nine research ...

Five RMIT juris doctor students have made a robust case for improved human rights protections in Australia. The students, Brigette Rose, Frank Aloe, Helen Metzger, Luke Fowler and Veronica Snip worked under the supervision of staff at the Centre for ...

The University of Adelaide has taken a step towards a cooler planet with the unveiling of its Campus Sustainability Plan. The $14.4 million plan is in line with South Australia’s desire for zero carbon emissions by 2050. Most of these ...