Australian researchers have made further advances in treating cervical disease that may greatly improve survival rates. Painful surgical procedures to treat cervical cancer could soon be a thing of the past as researchers from Griffith University have developed a new ...

A team of researchers at the University of Sydney has developed a new technique in which disease-causing bacteria become fluorescent, making deadly germs visible. The new detection technique currently under development at the Faculty of Pharmacy, aims to prevent the ...

It is disappointing that Labor and Coalition MPs joined ranks to claw back this money from low-income students already struggling to make ends meet in full-time study. Greens higher education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon commenting on the government’s decision to ...

A survey of 3500 first-year science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students found engineering students at Australian universities were the least satisfied with the quality of teaching. Compared with students in other STEM courses, the budding engineers were more inclined ...

One of our Nobel laureates says the research grant system is much more cumbersome than those overseas and needs streamlining. The efficiency of the Australian research grant system has been called into question by Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt who ...

State legislation to strip university councils of staff and student representatives has the backing of universities across Victoria, says the Minister for Innovation, Louise Asher. With the exception of the University of Melbourne, Asher’s comments to State Parliament suggest that ...

Western Union Business Solutions has entered into a partnership with ChinaPay to enable universities and higher education institutions around the world, including Australia, to accept international tuition and student fees in the Chinese Renminbi. Together ChinaPay, the online payments subsidiary ...

The new complex in Melbourne will advance the work of students and researchers across a wide range of areas including engineering, architecture, building, fashion and media. An $80 million centre for design research, touted as the first of its kind ...

Private tertiary colleges around the nation are training more students than ever before, according to a new report. The Deloitte report for the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) found that there are now 1.7 million full-time equivalent ...

A Sydney law school is suing the Australian National University over the name of its law faculty. The College of Law, based at St Leonards, claims ANU has infringed the college’s trademark by calling the university’s law faculty ANU College ...