Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has praised Oxford University for standing up for her during “difficult times”.   After being presented with an honorary doctorate by the university’s chancellor, Chris Patten, she said that recalling fond memories ...

The cost of making the transition to full open access could require universities to discourage or bar researchers from publishing minor papers in order to maintain funds for publication in top journals. That is the conclusion of one of the ...

Universities have to do more to support their doctoral candidates and it can start with giving them a desk and a chair.  The University of Sydney is undertaking a fundamental change to the way PhD students study in an effort ...

U.lab is a physical space with an online presence that showcases its work as a creative powerhouse at the University of Technology, Sydney. The brainchild of Dr Jochen Schweitzer, a senior lecturer at the business school, u.lab gets students to ...

Three academics have been recognised for their work in teaching and learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB) introduced the awards to recognise the pedagogical skills across the faculty and to raise ...

Zero to 9000 unique browsers in two months suggests that the topic of Parlour – gender inequity in the world of architecture – has hit a nerve. Parlour [http://www.archiparlour.org/] is the result of research by a team lead by Dr ...

The Productivity Commission report into vocational education and training has flaws in some very important areas, writes John Mitchell. The current damage being inflicted on the VET system in Victoria is no surprise to those who have observed related attacks ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning to take Macquarie University to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal next week over its refusal to release a final report into a review of its support staff services. Both the NTEU and the ...

Educators say the Square Kilometre Array will boost research here and hopefully increase the number of students studying science. Louis White reports. Astronomers, mathematicians and physicists around the world are jumping for joy at the news that Australia will share ...

Publishers of humanities and social science journals could go bankrupt if all academic papers became freely available after six months, a report commissioned by publishers has warned. The report, The Potential Effect of Making Journal Articles Freely Available in Repositories after ...