Fewer individuals applied to universities in 2019, and fewer universities made offers according to the latest 2019 application and offers data released this week by Education Minister Dan Tehan.  The decrease in applications was 1.3 per cent following a decrease ...

Curtin University is Australia’s best young uni in the natural sciences, if a ranking of institutions under 50 years of age is to go by. Nature Index ranked Curtin 23rd in the world, above its closest homegrown competitors Queensland University of Technology (30) and ...

The Australian public is more likely to trust university researchers than banks, the government and the press. That was one of the findings to come from the 29th ANUpoll. The research team pitted researchers against a group of eleven occupations ...

A British charity is bankrolling an international effort to free more of the knowledge housed in education institutions and publishers. The $540,000 project, led by Curtin University, will bring together an alliance of researchers who will work to build universities ...

Australian universities will have to tick new research boxes to retain their status should proposed changes to category standards be adopted. The recommendations were made by former Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake in his review of the ways higher education providers ...

Despite being young, highly intelligent and globally-oriented, temporary graduate visa holders are being underutilised in the labour market, a report from the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) has found. The report, written by Jonathan Chew and entitled Economic opportunities ...

The University of Canberra has narrowly beaten Flinders University to top the list in postgraduate employment rates after three years, scoring 98.4 per cent – a mere 0.2 percentage points higher than its rival. Flinders University students can also look ...

Victoria University’s new Block Model of education – whereby students study one subject intensively over four weeks, instead of four over 11 or 12 weeks – is having a marked effect on student retention and performance, prompting experts, policymakers and ...

It’s one of US president Donald Trump’s signature moves – an unusually long handshake. And if his intention is to generate feelings of anxiety among recipients, research out of Scotland has confirmed he’s right on the money. But the University ...

Four months after Australian National University revealed to the public that it had been the target of a cyber hack, the institution has released a report detailing its subsequent investigation. ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said the “state of the ...