China’s Tsinghua University seems to be going from strength to strength, at least as far as university rankings are concerned. It nabbed the top spot on Times Higher Education’s (THE) list of Asia-Pacific universities, beating out National University of Singapore and ...

The deaths of notable figures this week might reveal a lot about the circles individuals watch most closely. The fashion-focused will be mourning the death of Karl Lagerfeld at 85. Fans of Grey Gardens will charge their glasses for one of the people behind the ...

A system that takes stock of a student’s online learning activities and predicts the risk of academic failure is on the horizon. It’s part of a project that aims to curb the number of students who drop out of online courses, ...

Charles Sturt University won’t change its name but will get a lick of paint. The university announced earlier this year that it was considering changing from its current name to simply Sturt University (SU), among other suggestions. It subsequently held ...

A lot has been written (often negatively) about the effects of online technology on communication, with emoticons, emojis and abbreviations like LOL taking the place of the non-verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures and laughter that are available to ...

RUDD SLINGS TO SINGAPORE Professor Chris Rudd has gone west – from China to Singapore. The former provost of the University of Nottingham’s Ningbo campus in the coastal province of Zhejiang, near Shanghai, has made the island city-state his new ...

Gender and culture both affect the scores teachers get on student experience surveys – but the bias is more notable in certain faculties. That’s according to a review of almost 525,000 student experience surveys across five faculties between 2010 and ...

The controversial Western Civilisation degree, currently homed at the University of Wollongong, has released its syllabus. It covers ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, and the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries through to today, via the lenses of ...

Employees looking to get a better night’s sleep and feel more productive the next day at work should turn to after-work activities like reading, going to the gym or volunteering, a new study suggests. The research, published in the Journal ...

The University of Warwick has reversed its decision to allow students back on campus after they issued rape threats. After a public backlash, the university in Coventry, England imposed a lifetime ban on two students. The original incident, which occurred last ...