A few months ago, I got sent a satirical article about how to sabotage the productivity of your university by using a CIA manual from 1944. It contained advice such as “When possible, refer all matters to committees, for ‘further ...

The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is, for the most part, a well-oiled machine but it’s not always a particularly speedy one and needs a compliance monitoring framework. Those were some of the key findings to come from ...

Australian researchers have found a way to help two people breathe from one ventilator as coronavirus sparks a global machine shortage. The researchers have successfully tested ventilator splitting in a simulated setting, a study published on Tuesday reveals. Ventilator splitting ...

The government has guaranteed funding for universities at current levels, even if there is a fall in domestic student numbers. It’s a move that has been generally welcomed by universities but not without warning of a turbulent future despite the ...

The University of New England has created the world’s only fully online human skeleton thanks to a former staff member’s decision to have his remains used as a teaching aid. Archaeology technician Rowan Webb died from cancer in 2010 and ...

Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson said the peak body will continue to consult with government after Prime Minister Scott  Morrison said international students would have to guarantee their income for 12 months. Mr Morrison told a press conference on ...

The earliest known skull of the first human-like ancestors has been pieced together after researchers realised it wasn't a baboon. A team of international experts unearthed more than 150 pieces of the Homo erectus skull in the fossil-rich Drimolen cave ...

Forty of the world’s leading climate research universities have formed the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA) to fight climate change. The IUCA’s united goal is to ensure that governments, the public, media and industry have "better access to research-based facts ...

The University of New England is sharing lessons from its approach to online exams as institutions work to maintain schedules in a pandemic. Nearly two-thirds of UNE's subjects are already eligible for online examinations, and the university was moving to ...

Students at two of Australia’s highest-ranking universities are urging their peers to sign a petition to change the grading system this semester to either a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’. As universities across Australia and the world turn to online learning amid ...