Despite his many past achievements, Philip Payton was surprised to be awarded South Australian Historian of the Year by the History Council of South Australia. “You could’ve knocked me over with a feather,” he exclaimed. ANU associate professor of history ...

Five Australian universities have made the top 50 of the QS World University Rankings for 2017-18, with a further three in the top 100. ANU once again led the Australian pack. It recovered from its two-point slip last year to ...

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 ...

Researchers from Monash University's Faculty of Medicine have found that three-quarters of women either gain too much or too little weight during pregnancy, following the analysis of data gathered from more than 1 million mums-to-be around the globe. Their findings ...

The University of Canberra has received a boost from the 2017–18 ACT Budget – a $2.7 million allocation to establish a clinical school for nursing, midwifery and allied health. UC is currently in the midst of a healthcare faculty boom: it is ...

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? ...

Victoria University (VU) has had an eventful 2017 – and its only June. After slashing staff, and creating a separate teaching model for first years, a new research school and an academy for high-potential undergraduate students, they’re now opening a campus ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast is maximising its locus and propinquity to untouched wilderness and the fauna that resides within in a new hybrid course melding ecology and photography. It's called Animal Ecology and it's taught by USC lecturer ...

The Australian university community has coalesced to tongue-lash United States President Donald Trump, following his announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, commonly known as the Paris climate accord. Signed by almost 200 UN climate body-member countries ...

UTS wanted its look to match its "authentic, creative, energetic, open and entrepreneurial" lean. The result? A new, unboxed logo: UTS is emblazoned in bold font on a background of red, blue, black, white and grey bubbles. Its previous logo was, ...