Tertiary education minister Christopher Evans will travel to India today, the latest in a series of attempts by the Australian government to mend the relationship between the two countries, which soured after a series of attacks on Indian students ...

  Sydney Business School’s $3.8 million harbourfront campus at Circular Quay is already attracting more students less than five months since moving there, its parent university says. The CBD campus of the University of Wollongong school was officially opened on ...

Dr Glenn Withers’ plan to return to the ANU is a recurring step in a long career. Dr Glenn Withers has announced he will return to academia when his term as chief executive of Universities Australia expires at the end ...

  Terrible massacres on campuses are fortunately rare, but it is still critical to be alert to warning signs, a conference on threat management was told last week. Dr Gene Deisinger, one of two American speakers at the University of ...

  Five universities have collaborated with leading aged care providers to mount an Australian-first study to reduce social isolation among older people, which the researchers have identified as one of the most serious mental and physical health risks facing the ...

  University of Oxford vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton is on an Australian tour that will culminate in a panel discussion this week on the challenge for universities to “change the world”. The panel, to include Oxford alumni and former Liberal ...

High achieving school leavers will have to keep achieving before they can enter post-grad, university says. Students assured entry to postgraduate courses at the University of Western Australia because they have entered with a high year 12 score will still ...

Growing global demand for courses on border security has prompted the University of Canberra’s school of customs to set up shop in Colombo. If international students can’t or won’t travel to your university, take your university to them: that has ...

TEQSA’s regulatory approach was developed after extensive and sometimes fraught consultation with the states and territories and the higher education sector. Professor Denise Bradley AC will act as chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) which ...

A nanomedicine research centre which was launched last week at the University of New South Wales will be run jointly by faculties of science, engineering and medicine. The new Australian Centre for Nanomedicine (ACN), was opened last week by Australia’s ...