The University of Technology Sydney has continued its ascent in the Times Higher Education young university rankings, climbing six places from last year’s index to come in at number 15, leading local universities. The index is a global ranking of universities ...

The most educated people are among the least satisfied at work, a new report from Curtin University has shown. Happy workers: How satisfied are Australians at work?, completed with the help of workplace thinktank Make Work Absolutely Human (mwah.), showed ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has sought to clear the air after it was accused of betraying the 39,000 students who participated in its survey on sexual violence at Australian universities. As reported by Fairfax Media, prominent social commentator and ...

Monash University’s partnership with Melbourne’s Monash Children’s Hospital has been given a $6 million boost to allow medical students to learn within its walls and for clinical trials to be conducted. Monash vice-chancellor professor Margaret Gardner said these funds from ...

Small ‘l’ liberals are drawn to blue-sky research, while conservatives are interested in applied science, new research has concluded. The study, Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science, published in the journal Nature Human ...

The University of Tasmania has awarded three scholarships to asylum seekers to, in part, bridge the gap between Australia's island state and the rest of the world. The inaugural recipients of the Tasmanian Asylum Seeker Scholarship are from Pakistan, Afghanistan ...

The Council of Private Higher Education has lobbied Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to cut the 25 per cent loan fee imposed on students who enrol in these institutions, painting the issue as a matter of equity. In his letter, COPHE ...

The incoming chief executive of TAFE Directors Australia says he will push to get vocational education included on the government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. Craig Robertson said workers will need to be reskilled as old industries perish, and that ...

Since the demise of the infamous VET FEE-HELP scheme, there has been a spike in vocational colleges applying to become higher education institutions. The Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA)'s quarterly report shows that 86 prospective providers applied to become ...

People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can harness their symptoms by becoming entrepreneurs, researchers say. A study by the University of Bath in England found symptoms such as hyperactivity and impulsiveness, which pose daily challenges to those with ADHD, ...