Picture a cube. People will likely have varying responses to this command. For some, the cube will be large. They might imagine that it’s floating. Others will use their answer to infer something about their personality through an online quiz. But for ...

A small farm on the outskirts of Bacchus Marsh, about halfway between Melbourne and Ballarat, is the birthplace of a self-described ‘unlikely entrepreneur’. But it took decades for Alan Manly to get to that point. The managing director of Sydney-based private tertiary ...

The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are considering merging to create a new, leading Australian university in a move welcomed by both the state and federal governments. Both universities have agreed to explore whether a merged ...

They may constitute only approximately 1.2 per cent of the population, but until recently, transgender individuals have been excluded from society. In a 2015 speech, former Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson said that of LGBTQI people, “…the lingering and most extensive discrimination ...

Much has been made of the inadequacy of careers advice in schools. Regardless, some young people simply know what they want to do for a living earlier than others. Erin, from Bondi in Sydney’s east, knew she wanted to be a ...

As the Socceroos prepare for the first game of their fifth World Cup campaign, the foundation named in honour of the captain in their first World Cup appearance is sponsoring a new PhD scholarship at The University of Sydney. The ...

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 ...