UNSW Sydney has sent more subjects into a global ranking than any other Australian institution, while another took out one of the top spots. With 38 subjects ranking in the global top 100 of ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects ...

Geoffrey Miller is worried about academic freedoms. As a self-identified “aspie” and “nerd”, Miller has already laid out the case for us to consider the effect free speech policies can have on those academics and students who are ‘neurodivergent’ or ...

Ask a child to colour in a stegosaurus and you might get a red one, a green one, or perhaps grey and blue. Ask a scientist and you might get the same variation. That’s because colour is often lost to ...

Universities Australia is calling for significant reinvestment by government and business in research and development ahead of a Parliamentary inquiry into research funding. The group said data from 2015/16 showed for the first time since figures have been kept that ...

Every high school in Australia will have at least one specialist STEM teacher if a workforce strategy floated by Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham was to come to fruition and meet its goals. In a speech in Sydney, ...

The state government admits TAFE NSW's student management system is "unacceptable" amid revelations the agency hadn't kept records up to date because it was so inefficient. In an internal email sent last week, TAFE NSW's managing director said 400,000 student ...

Prospective university students might be turned off a career in nursing under changes to university loan repayment thresholds, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has warned. The college said the move might exacerbate anticipated workforce shortages – a dearth of ...

Are industry-defined qualifications no longer attractive to students? That’s the questions TAFE Directors Australia chief executive Craig Robertson said the industry needs to ask itself, following data released this week that showed government-funded training is down year on year. The National ...

Charles Sturt University students have been suspended over racist photos posted to social media, and have been told they must complete a course on Indigenous culture. Students attending a 'politcally incorrect' end-of-year party dressed up as Klu Klux Klan members, ...

Memory centres and a registry of clinical trial volunteers are two of the tentpoles of a new dementia network, which Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt is calling the accelerator Australia needs “to win the race against dementia”. The Australian Dementia ...