The economic strain of COVID-19 is forcing 45 per cent of Australia’s best and brightest future researchers to consider disengaging from their PhD studies. A new study from The University of Sydney, titled 'The Quiet Crisis of PhDs and COVID-19: ...

A COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Queensland is now ready to be tested on humans. The promising treatment is being developed and manufactured simultaneously, in what is an Australian first. "Whilst these studies are underway, we will still ...

They are designed to keep asthma attacks in check but a group of Australian researchers believe inhalers could also be used to treat COVID-19. A trial by Queensland University of Technology and University of Oxford researchers is looking at whether ...

A survey conducted at the zenith of COVID-19 reported that teachers were routinely working extra hours, with nearly half of the 1200 respondents working almost an extra day during the pandemic and others working in excess of 20 extra hours ...

No Australian university took home gold in a global ranking of academic subjects but there was a silver for Griffith University. It was second in the world for nursing in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, behind the University of ...

A new report has found that more than three in four international students in Australia are being paid less than the minimum casual wage, and one in four said they were receiving less than half the minimum wage in their ...

One of the world’s most-promising early career researchers has received a generous $8 million-dollar grant from Terry Snow and the Snow family to pursue research into how the human immune system can hunt down and eradicate cancer. Dr Marian Burr ...

Australian National University has retained its podium position in an international ranking of universities established during the expansion of higher education after World War II. ANU was again ranked second on the Times Higher Education list of Golden Age universities, ...

Australia is again home to more top young universities than any other study destination. That’s according to the 2021 edition of the Top 50 Under 50 Rankings, put together by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Once again, nine ...

School leavers who are hoping to study humanities will either have to foot a bill double that of their predecessors or pick different subjects under a new scheme announced by Education Minister Dan Tehan. Under the plan, the government will ...