Flames that rose from announcements Australian National University and UNSW were planning staff cuts were fanned by news a US university’s Sydney campus was eligible for JobKeeper payments. This week, ANU vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt revealed the “painful” decision to cut ...

Scientists around the globe celebrated news the University of Oxford would restart the trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, but some called for more transparency surrounding the pause while others backed the decision to not detail the illness that prompted ...

Rhodes University in South Africa doesn’t throw its own hat in the rankings ring – but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it there. Drawing on publicly available data, many rankings bodies slot its name into their league tables, possibly ...

Recent research led by Monash University underscores the importance of assessment feedback, as well as revealing that both academic staff and students need to improve. Limited time, large class sizes, declining student motivation and subpar staff feedback sills were identified in ...

The peak body for Australian education in India has released a report that shows promising signs for Australia’s beleaguered university sector. During August, the Association of Australian Education Representative in India (AAERI) surveyed prospective international students from both India and Nepal. ...

University of Sydney researchers are drawing the public’s attention to a slow-moving and often overlooked invertebrate that plays a significant role in ecosystems – the snail. They’ve produced the Urban Field Naturalist Guide to Snail Homing, a new how-to that ...

The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report highlights that Australia’s public spending on education is shrouded by private investment and is below the OECD average. Dr Emma Rowe, an expert in school funding and education policy at ...

Twelve Australian universities have ranked in the top 200 on a 2021 ladder – more than any other year. Times Higher Education (THE) today announced the results of its World University Rankings 2021. Of the Australian universities to rank in ...

The 2020 Graduate Outcome Survey – Longitudinal (GOS-L) report was recently released by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), with figures showing a significant jump in the number of graduates in full-time work since 2017 and varying gender gaps ...

University of Sydney staff are being asked to raise their hand for redundancy. In an email to staff sent Tuesday afternoon, vice-chancellor Michael Spence said he was seeking expressions of interest in voluntary redundancies among continuing staff and those on ...