International students are returning to Australia’s shores, with just under 30,000 arriving in the past six weeks. Many of the students will be joining or rejoining the workforce, relieving pressure on small businesses that have struggled to find workers during ...

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has retained its top-10 position in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings for 2022, moving up one rung from last years' ranking to eighth place. UTS was the only Australian institution in the ...

Top universities in Australia and the UK will work more closely together following the passing of a historic trade agreement. In a joint letter, Australia’s Group of Eight (G08) coalition and the UK’s Russell Group announced a new committee aimed ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's announcement yesterday of a $2bn research commercialisation fund has been met with widespread positivity by the higher education sector and business groups. Announced during his National Press Club Address, the plan's centrepiece is a $1.6bn fund ...

Findings from an international genetic study involving the University of Melbourne mean it may now be possible to predict which children are more likely to develop epilepsy later in life based on their genotype. The study looked at febrile seizures ...

Expanding the existing global network of farmers and researchers who connect using on-farm experimentation (OFE) could help transform the agricultural industry and solve some of its toughest challenges, a Curtin University-led study has found. OFE is a big data approach to ...

University staff are increasingly working in their spare time, with new research showing that 50 per cent of academics and professional staff receive work-related texts, calls and emails from colleagues on the weekend. The research from the University of South ...

The government has appointed ex-Nationals senator Fiona Nash Australia’s first Regional Education Commissioner. Created in the wake of the Napthine Review, the role of the commissioner will be to oversee the implementation of the strategy to improve regional, rural and ...

Murdoch University has announced Professor Andrew J Deeks as its new Vice Chancellor, starting in April 2022. Deeks comes to Murdoch from University College Dublin, where he has served as president since 2014. He was the first Australian to lead ...

School leavers eyeing off a future in hospitality, child care or a trade could soon receive free training under a proposal designed to help sectors smashed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In an address to Labor faithful in Sydney, Anthony Albanese ...