You can tell a lot about the culture of philanthropy by the names on the buildings, says Simon Haines. Chu, the new US energy secretary. Which is a significant connection: Hong Kong’s universities rely much more heavily than ours on, ...

The establishment of teaching-only universities to subsidise a few elite research powerhouses has been put forward as part of a model for a perfect university system.

Bradley joins editorial boardpan. He is chair of the University of Sydney USA Foundation. UB appoints PVC (research) Professor Frank Stagnitti, an environmental scientist and mathematician, has been appointed pro vice-chancellor (research) at the University of Ballarat. Stagnitti, currently of ...

Bookshelf - Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of Historyrom the Central Institute of Experimental Animals and Professor Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine. The team used viral DNA to integrate a new gene for green fluorescent ...

Australia’s richest 200 individuals might be collectively $25 billion poorer than they were a year earlier, but with $208 million, Shesh Ghale had more than enough to make his debut. The Nepalese-born entrepreneur is living proof that education opens doors.g ...

Transnational education programs may have peaked a couple of years ago and its hard to tell where this particular corner of international education is headed, writes Stephen Connelly.TNE) programs over the past 17 years. My first experience of TNE was ...

Just days after education minister Julia Gillard announced a roundtable with international students to discuss their concerns about welfare, safety and accommodation, 18 Indian students were arrested on Monday morning for “breaching the peace” following a mass protest in the ...