Graduates of Curtin University are most preferred by employers, according to the federal government’s latest 2022 survey results, with employing organisations asked to rate the quality of the graduates they hire. With an employer satisfaction rate of 89.7 per cent, ...
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The University of Melbourne recorded a $203 million deficit in 2022, despite posting record-breaking surpluses over the past two years. On Thursday, the University of Melbourne released its financial results for the end of 2022, where it finished with $203 ...
More »USYD staff vote to continue strikes
Staff at the University of Sydney have voted to continue rolling industrial action marking the longest-running strike campaign seen in any Australian university. On Friday, staff from the university formed picket lines in front of the university's Camperdown campus marking ...
More »UniSC named Australia’s happiest university
The University of the Sunshine Coast Sippy Downs campus was named Australia's happiest university by an artificial intelligence program that analysed students' Instagram pictures. The analysis used an AI recognition tool that measured levels of emotion in human faces to ...
More »Monash University records $78.3m deficit in 2022 after Covid surpluses
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 ...
More »Australia ranks fourth in latest QS world subject rankings
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 ...
More »It’s worth it for ‘marginal’ students to go to uni says Productivity Commision
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 ...
More »Flinders Uni unveils new nuclear degrees ahead of AUKUS deal
Flinders University has announced a global academic collaboration to offer new nuclear degrees and research opportunities amid the signing of the landmark AUKUS deal. After the US, UK, and Australia released details about their plans to create a new fleet ...
More »Go8 urges deeper India research ties
Australia’s research-intensive universities are pushing for an even closer relationship with India, urging the two countries to establish a higher education and research strategy. The Group of Eight, which represents the eight top research universities, said the strategy was the ...
More »One quarter of top global universities run by women
Monash Vice-Chancellor Margaret Gardner and University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Deborah Terry are the only two Australian women leading a top global university, according to the latest higher education rankings. For International Women's Day in March, Times Higher Education analysed data ...
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