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, ...

Australian researchers will test a way to dole out a vaccine without the need for a needle. University of Sydney researchers were awarded $1.12 million in funding to undertake independent clinical research studies to determine the effectiveness of a postage-stamp-like ...

Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been released from an Iranian prison after spending more than two years behind bars over allegations of espionage. “Thank you… to all of you who have supported me and campaigned for my freedom, it has meant ...

Six per cent of Australians are certain they won’t get a COVID-19 jab once one is made available. An Australian National University survey of 3,000 Aussie adults also revealed another seven per cent feel they will probably not get the ...

As the race to make a COVID-19 vaccine safe and commercially available gathers steam, new research has revealed University of Oxford and AstraZeneca’s potential jab produced promising results in older adults. Full trial results are expected by Christmas but late-stage ...

Australia no longer sits among the top five in a ranking of the world’s best countries for graduate employability – but it’s still seen as an attractive option for students. The 2020 Global University Employability Rankings, designed by French HR ...

University of Sydney academics have launched a campaign against their employer’s decision to cut jobs in medical science fields. The cohort believes USyd is making almost two dozen of its medical science academics redundant “under false pretences”. The Defend Medical ...

The latest Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) report shows an unsurprising decline in employment for higher education graduates over the last 12 months, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey, which was released on ...

A high school in Adelaide’s northern suburbs and a Flinders University campus will be closed for deep cleaning after students at both facilities tested positive to COVID-19. It was announced on Tuesday that a student from the Roma Mitchell Secondary College ...

Much has been said of the significant impact COVID-19 has had on international student recruitment, and the reliance of universities in particular on foreign students. But what happens next for the tertiary education sector? With border closures and a lack ...