Australia has just nine years before exceeding its Paris Accord commitments at current emission rates, a leading climate expert has warned. Professor Mark Howden, director of the Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute, said although thinking on climate change had “turned a corner” in the past ...

Queensland researchers are asking Australians to brainstorm ideas for a project that aims to ensure people with dementia get home safely after they go missing. Dr Margaret MacAndrew from QUT and the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration said her study ...

The Victorian government will invest $155 million to establish an Australian Institute of Infectious Disease in Melbourne. Premier Daniel Andrews made the funding announcement, which will form part of this month’s state budget, on Friday morning. The total cost of ...

New modelling by education policy think tank Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows a 50 per cent drop in Australia’s international student numbers by mid-2021 if the country’s borders remain closed. The 50 per cent drop, which equates to roughly ...

It’s possible 100,000 Australian students will be unable to travel overseas to study due to travel restrictions in 2020 and 2021. That’s the estimate consultancy firm Studymove put forward on the back of its survey of university students, commissioned by ...

An Aussie university student has had her first day in court waging a David and Goliath battle against the government over climate change. Melbourne student Katta O’Donnell was inspired to take legal action against the government during a La Trobe university lecture about the ...

A new report from Western Union Business Solutions following the COVID-19 disruption highlights how universities can evolve their approach to better meet the needs of a new generation of students, writes Hayden Scown With travel off the cards for the ...

“How can it be ethical to teach a program in schools that has not been rigorously evaluated?” This is one of the questions two academics posed as they argued that education research should be held to a higher standard, closer ...

The world’s universities have been weighed up by academics and they’ve again put six Australian institutions in the top 100. Times Higher Education (THE) has released the 2020 edition of its World Reputation Rankings, which canvasses the opinions of the ...

South Australia’s opposition leader has promised to drive a merger between the states' universities if the Labor party wins the next state election. In a Facebook post, Peter Malinauskas said South Australia was the only mainland state without a university ...