Universities are concerned by the lack of specifics in the government’s new plans for academic expansion into Asia, reports The government’s Australia in the Asian Century white paper outlines how the nation must engage with Asia to take advantage of ...

A recent report warns of the consequences of ignoring educational globalisation, but universities say they’re already changing The Ernst & Young report University of the Future states that “there’s not a single Australian university that can survive to 2025 with ...

The rise in applications for tertiary study in 2013 is due to the removal of caps on universities and New South Wales increasing the school leaving age to 17, according to the Universities Admission Centre (UAC). At the halfway point ...

"The road map that this paper lays out will enable Australia to make the most of the immense opportunity that the Asian Century represents." The vice-chancellor of Monash University, Professor Ed Byrne AO, has congratulated Prime Minister Julia Gillard and ...

In a major breakthrough, an international team of researchers including an Australian academic have pinpointed the timing of our planet’s largest volcanic eruption of the past two million years. [[IMG:lenggongvalleydrilling]] Professor Richard “Bert” Roberts from the University of Wollongong said ...

An academic from La Trobe University has received a $247,000 research grant from the US National Institute of Justice to study lone-wolf terrorism. Senior research fellow Dr Ramon Spaaij (pictured) and his co-investigator Mark Hamm – a renowned professor of ...

Curtin University in Perth has threatened to withdraw support for the Bentley campus bar’s liquor licence after student protests over a new 9pm closing time. The university set the restriction following a string of assaults at the Curtin Student Guild-operated ...

Researchers from Flinders University, in partnership with collaborators in Melbourne, believe they have developed a new drug that may stop or even reverse the progression of some eye disease. Led by Professor Keryn Williams of Flinders University’s ophthalmology, eye and ...

The use of ecstasy and synthetic drugs is rising among recreational drug users, a new national survey has found. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales examined trends in drug use among ...

The 25-metre Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the world’s biggest optical telescope, has reached a milestone in construction. The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Arizona has finished polishing the first of its seven 8.4m-diameter mirrors. Australian National University (ANU) is leading ...