Three vice-chancellors have been recognised today by being inducted into the Order of Australia. University of Sydney vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence will now have AC after his name as a Companion of the Order of Australia. Spence received the honour ...

The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021, and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund. Allan Tait, UniMelb chief financial ...

Monash University has been given $14 million to boost the health of people living in slums around the world. The grant came from the philanthropic Wellcome Trust in the UK, and was only one of four grants awarded from 600 ...

For entrepreneur Bevis Cheng, failure is much more interesting than success. “It really shapes the way you think about things, the way you approach things, what you could do differently, what you could do better,” Cheng says. “I mean everybody ...

Governments, universities and students should not use international rankings to make decisions about higher education, a new report from the UK has said. International university rankings: For good or ill, from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), argues that the ...

As informed public debate and discourse recede, it is more important than ever for universities to engage politically. As my higher education colleagues and I look to begin a new academic year, there is a pervading sense that some ‘certainties’ ...

The youngest children in class are more likely than their older classmates to receive medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study by academics at Curtin University has found. The results of the study, published in the Medical Journal ...

In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...

The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Students in Year 9 and 10 are part of the Wingara Mura program while those in Year 11 ...

Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor professor Andrew Vann has renewed his contract and will stay at the helm until 2021. For his next term, Vann said he'd ensure CSU added value to the communities it was a part of. This meant, ...