As Australia begins a slow and difficult recovery from COVID-19, the status of our universities will be increasingly important in attracting and retaining international students once borders fully reopen. In a recent article for The Conversation, UNSW president and vice-chancellor ...

The Prime Minister has defended his decision to promote Alan Tudge to the position of Education and Youth Minister last week as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Scott Morrison said Tudge, whose affair with a female staffer was aired on ...

The University of Tasmania has released the findings of a review into complaints about the workplace under Professor Peter Rathjen’s leadership. UTAS commissioned barrister Maree Norton to explore the 11 complaints it received – three of which related directly to ...

Australian adults took a “massive hit to happiness” and lost the equivalent of $338 billion in life satisfaction due to COVID-19, according to new analysis. The Australian National University found the financial value of declining wellbeing among adults during the ...

The University of Queensland announced today that it will not progress its COVID-19 vaccine candidate to the next stage of clinical trials due to an unexpected finding in phase 1. Data revealed that participants returned false positive HIV test results. ...

Space experts and novices alike held their breath as a capsule full of space rocks fell to the South Australian outback, after a journey of more than 5 billion kilometres. The 4.5-billion-year-old rock samples taken from an asteroid some 11.76 ...

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILYSouthern Cross University announced two key appointments touted to help drive the institution’s path to recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. New vice chancellor Professor Tyrone Carlin named Professor Erica Wilson as pro vice ...

A key chemical in marijuana does not impair a person’s ability to drive, an international study involving the University of Sydney has found. Of the two main components in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), CBD does not have an impact on ...

An Australian scientist has made a surprise anti-ageing breakthrough. University of Sydney Associate Professor Tony Cesare said he found “the most unexpected result of my career” in a study of stem cell immortality. The team co-led by Cesare said they have ...

The world’s top 10 universities offer fewer than average sustainability courses when measured against a pool of global institutions. That’s according to sustainable energy organisation EIT InnoEnergy, which looked at the standalone sustainable educational output of 27 institutions across Europe, ...