The peak body representing Australia’s independent higher education providers is getting a new coat of paint. After 18 years of being the Council of Private Higher Education, its board has approved the new identity – Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA). ...

For a university publishing house, it was shocking. On Wednesday, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) chief executive Louise Adler resigned after the university announced it would change its focus from commercial to academic publishing. She was hastily followed out by Chairman Laurie ...

‘Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.’ It’s one of the most commons pieces of nutritional advice people shill out unprovoked, but they might be leading dieters astray. A new review, published in the BMJ, has revealed daily ...

To keep up with the push to see Australians in the workforce for longer, older jobseekers will brush up on their soft skills through an Australian pilot. Deakin University has invited older adults looking to get back into the workforce to ...

Romantic love won’t be celebrated this year at the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan’s third largest city. To much chagrin, the university – one of the nation’s best – has issued a ‘ban’ on Valentine’s Day. In its place, Vice ...

Contrary to popular thought, orthodontic treatment will not prevent future tooth decay, researchers have argued. The University of Adelaide team assessed the long-term dental health of 448 people and discovered that those who had orthodontic treatment did not have better ...

A sorority has expelled one of its members following the upload of a video showing a woman in blackface using what sounds like a racist slur. The video shows a student covering her face and hands in black paint and ...

China has again dominated a ranking of universities from emerging economies. Unsurprisingly, seven of the top ten positions on Times Higher Education’s (THE) Emerging Economies University Ranking 2019 were held by Chinese institutions. Tsinghua University took out the top spot ...

The issue of population growth made headlines a number of times in 2018 – Prime Minister Scott Morrison flagged cutting migration and earlier in the year Four Corners explored our readiness for a ‘Big Australia’ – so what does the ...

In 2007 James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, said that black people are genetically inferior. In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, he voiced that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” as “all our social policies are based ...