The good lexicographical folks at Macquarie Dictionary have done the teachers of Australia a great service this week, decoding some of the patois overwhelming uni quads in 2017. Presented below are some of more interesting new additions — 'neologism' in the ...

Converting rust belts into brain belts. That’s how Dutch economist and author Antoine van Agtmael describes the process of transitioning a nation’s economy from an uncompetitive manufacturing or resources base to one that thrives off the products developed by a ...

Federal Labor has flagged further reforms to increase flexibility in the demand-driven system of university funding if it comes to power at the next election. Addressing the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday 2 March 2017, shadow education minister ...

Universities “are, and always will be, bigger than the nation state” said incoming chair of Universities Australia (UA) professor Margaret Gardner to the lobby group’s annual conference today. She implored its member institutions to rally against the waves of populist ...

Regional students throughout Australia are moving at unprecedented levels to the big smoke to study. A study funded by the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education at Curtin University shows the number of students shifting from regional towns ...

Universities aren't necessarily going to like all of the Turnbull government's new education policy, the minister in charge plans to tell their chiefs. But Simon Birmingham is seeking their support in encouraging a bipartisan approach to set the sector up ...

In a post-truth world of "alternative facts", one man is going in to bat for evidence. Universities Australia chairman Barney Glover says there's been a creeping cynicism and even outright hostility towards evidence and expertise, both in Australia and around ...

Australia's oral health has been put in the dentists chair. The first national study of oral health will examine the gums and teeth of 15,000 Australians during the next 12 months. The $5.8 million study will be conducted by researchers at ...

The late Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former chief executive, is one of several people who are legendary for being wildly successful, but dropping out of university. And in Australia, the 17-year-old Taj Pebari runs his own tech start-up, Fifty ...

Universities Australia (UA) has unveiled its new Indigenous education strategy, the centrepiece of which is to grow Indigenous enrolment rates so they reflect the Indigenous proportion of the total population. Currently Indigenous students represent 1.6 per cent of the current ...