The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...

The University of Melbourne has made it into the top 50 universities for the Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings 2021, being Australia’s sole representative at number 46. Four other Australian universities ranked within the top 200, with Australian ...

Insurance company William Russell has just released a report on the most empowering countries for females to live and work, with Australia breaking the top 10 in only one of the key indicators: the proportion of women who hold a ...

A Monash University expert in discrimination law and tort law has said that so-called “no jab, no entry” policies do not constitute discrimination, despite some claiming the contrary. Liam Elphick, an associate lecturer in the faculty of law at Monash, ...

Global higher education experts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, what the company calls “their annual deep dive into the relationship between university choice and graduate employment outcomes".  QS states that the rankings “offer a ...

Professor Julie Leask from the University of Sydney argues proposals for mandatory vaccinations must be supported by a “strong justification” and less draconian measures must be “meaningfully attempted” first, in a co-authored article in the Medical Journal of Australia. In ...

University of Sydney staff and students met with the dean of the university’s faculty of arts and social sciences (FASS) Professor Annamarie Jagose on Thursday to ask her questions and oppose a program titled “Future FASS”, but a spokesperson for ...

Two legal academics from Flinders University say Canada’s ongoing push to create an independent body to review wrongful convictions highlights significant shortcomings in Australia’s legal system. Both lawyers and Adjunct Associate Professors from the university’s college of business, government and ...

New research from the Australian National University has found that individuals who base their thinking on “first instincts” are more likely to believe and share misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic.  COVID-19 misinformation has appeared and been shared since the beginning ...

The University of Melbourne is Australia’s sole top 50 entrant in the latest ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), landing at 33. Other Australian universities to crack the top 100 this year include the University of Queensland (51), UNSW ...