A large number of people have been evacuated from the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, following what was first believed to be a chemical spill. The entire campus on Edward Street in North Sydney has been evacuated as a precaution after ...

Children sexually abusing other children in care has become a greater concern than adults inflicting the abuse, a report has found. A Royal Commission report from the Parenting Research Centre and the University of Melbourne states that efforts to prevent ...

An IT manager swindled three universities out of more than $110,000 in long-running false work scams, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has heard. Brett Roberts is alleged to have issued $113,715 worth of fake invoices to the University of Sydney, ...

Taxpayers, rather than students alone, would be asked to foot the cost of maintaining Australia’s higher-education system under one alternative approach to the government’s proposed deregulated fee system. The proposal was one of many discussed last week at a round table University ...

There is endless discussion over university entry scores and their significance. In particular, there are often quite heated arguments in the media over perceived lowering of standards resulting from the enrolment of students with low ATARs. Such is the case ...

The education minister, Christopher Pyne, is confident his university reforms will pass parliament shortly. But he's remaining tight-lipped on whether he's won over Clive Palmer. Pyne dined with the Palmer United Party (PUP) leader at a Canberra Chinese restaurant on ...

A highly anticipated report from a government advisory group has called for sweeping changes to the way teachers are trained, including an overhaul of the way universities select students for teaching courses. The report, Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers, was ...

The government's university reforms mark II are yet to reach the Senate but they already look set to fail. In a signal of their opposition, a coterie of cross-bench senators have supported a Labor push to investigate alternatives to fee ...

Dean of Science at UNSW Merlin Crossley has joined other leading experts concerned over reduced funding to research. "Across the world, Singapore, China, and even the European countries are maintaining or increasing funding to science, and have a strategy to ...

Key cross-bench senators will help Labor explore how universities can be helped without deregulating fees. The move comes after another university vice-chancellor broke ranks to express doubts over the merits of deregulation. Labor's Kim Carr and cross-benchers Nick Xenophon, Jacqui ...