Wikipedia has been through many changes since its inception in 2001. Now that it dwarfs all previous encyclopedias in scope and depth, collaborations with expert contributors are aiding the increased focus on content quality. In a recent letter to Science, ...

People looking to commence university studies next year would do well to check out the Good Universities Guide 2018, released yesterday. We've already laid out the main stats. But, to better understand the big data picture, we spoke to Ross White, head of ...

A UON business lecturer has inadvertently raised China's ire after suggesting Taiwan and Hong Kong are separate countries. The lecturer showed a report by anti-corruption NGO Transparency International that included this information, and was thereafter confronted and secretly recorded by a group of ...

The most in-demand university isn't necessarily the best for students, this year's Good Universities Guide has revealed. While UniMelb tops prospective students' lists, Bond placed first for 'overall student experience'. The results from the Good Education Group's flagship publication were mostly mixed, ...

This article has been updated to reflect the latest developments. Last week, Cambridge University Press (CUP) removed over 300 articles from its own journal following a request by the Chinese government. Articles from The China Quarterly, published by CUP for ...

 Killer robots - including lethal microdrone swarms - should be urgently banned before a wave of weapons of mass destruction gets out of control, industry leaders say. Robotics and artificial intelligence experts such as Tesla founder Elon Musk and head ...

According to Diabetes Australia 100,000 Australians have developed diabetes in the past year, so Curtin University's new MOOC Life with Diabetes will be useful in educating those with diabetes as well as carers and family members. The MOOC has five modules which ...

“Now do individual academics pay much attention to it? No, not yet. Not least because they don't have to. They're living in sort of an echo chamber, sort of a la la land where as long as they just do ...

A leading international university rankings agency has rated six Australian universities in its top 100. Released yesterday, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) gave the University of Melbourne top Australian honours. It ranked 39th, one place better than ...

Despite being the third largest ocean in the world, the Indian Ocean is one of the least explored marine environments, says the University of Western Australia’s vice-chancellor, professor Dawn Freshwater. This makes the opening of the Indian Ocean Marine Research ...