University researchers from UNSW, ANU and the University of Melbourne have been recognised for their excellence at Australia’s most prestigious science awards. The 23rd Annual Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, held on Monday evening, recognised outstanding work from the nation’s ...

Labor's newly-announced Universities Accord will tackle equity, accessibility and casualisation in the nation's first major review of higher education policy since 2008. On Wednesday, Education Minister Jason Clare announced the details of the Australian Universities Accord, saying it will be ...

Following the review of the Australian Research Council Act, the government is now seeking feedback from academics and researchers before its final report in March 2023. The consultation papers, open until mid-December, have identified nine major points to improve grant ...

Monash University has run away with the honours in The Australian’s 2023 list of the nation’s top researchers and research institutions in 250 fields of academic endeavour. A Monash researcher was in first place in 31 of the research fields ...

Around 15,000 casual staff from the University of Melbourne will receive $22m in back payment after a new review revealed ongoing underpayment by the university over an eight-year period. The announcement made by Vice-Chancellor professor Duncan Maskell last week follows ...

Major changes to Twitter’s free speech and content moderation rules have presented new challenges for universities and academics. Last week, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk secured ownership of the world's largest social media platform, firing roughly half of Twitter's workforce and ...

Monash University has appointed former health and aged care minister Greg Hunt to be the chair of the Turner Advisory Council for Brain and Mental Health. The retired politician, who previously served under the previous Morrison government, will act as ...

James Cook University has returned sacred Indigenous artefacts back to their communities as part of a new, long-term repatriation project. Last week the university returned a boomerang, a stone axe-head, photographic slides and a group of bark paintings to representatives ...

One in six of academic staff and 42 per cent of students at the University of Tasmania experienced food insecurity in 2022, according to a new survey. The study, said to be the ‘first of its kind’ in Australia to ...

The University of New South Wales and Sydney University have been named as Australia's most sustainable universities, tying for fifth place in the latest global higher education rankings. Australia had 36 per cent of its universities appear in the top ...