Even with its endowment funds in freefall, Sydney University is looking to invest in the future, writes Ben Powerf measures to pare spending by $30 million this financial year after being hit by investment losses in 2008. The measures include ...

Sudhir Venkatesh was a first-year PhD student in sociology, when he decided to take his research on life in the housing projects of Chicago to another level. Over the course of a decade, Venkatesh embedded himself in the lives of ...

Journal debates The nature of academic publishing is changing rapidly and young humanities academics are struggling to find their place, writes Toby Miller. I just spent a couple of days with (predominantly) junior faculty in Salt Lake City, the Mormonic ...

Two centuries of honours degrees to disappear Britain’s 200-year-old system of awarding honours degrees as firsts, upper and lower seconds, and thirds will be superseded by a higher education achievement report (HEAR) by 2011. A recent report by vice-chancellors called ...

The sunnier the weather, the sunnier the human spirit. And the happier people are, the less likely they are to take risky investment decisions, a Deakin University researcher has found. Using data from Germany and the Netherlands, Dr Cahit Guven, ...

a Polgar, women’s Olympiad, Thessaloniki, 1988. Zsuzsanna, the eldest of Hungary’s remarkable Polgar sisters, was women’s world champion from 1996 to 1999, although she was perhaps fortunate that her brilliant sister Judit – the youngest of the three – never ...

US private education giant Kaplan has its sights set on establishing a teaching-only university in Adelaide, following the signing of an MOU with the University of Adelaide last week. The campus would enrol 5000 campus-based international and domestic students, as ...

TAFEs were the fastest growing higher education providers last year and universities ramped up their vocational offerings, in yet another sign that the distinctions are blurring between higher education and VET. The latest DEEWR ‘Selected higher education statistics’ report, a ...

The NSW and Victorian training ministers next week face the unenviable task of explaining to international students why their respective governments don’t offer transport concessions, in a room full of education ministers from states and territories that do. The three ...

The government should set up a $100 million fund to support early clinical testing of new drugs in order to attract venture capital of the scale needed to jump-start Australia’s languishing pharmaceutical industry, a public debate at the University of ...