It may not matter for graduate salaries, but for reputation, rankings are king. So, the Group of Eight (Go8) will be chuffed to see that they have not only maintained their excellence in the latest global ratings; they have enhanced it. ...

A global news agency holds our universities in high research esteem, but not as high as those from South Korea, Japan and China. Monash University – the top Australian institution to place in the Reuters 2018 ranking of the Asia Pacific’s ...

For the first time, higher education providers will be assessed for registration renewal purposes on their provision of student support services. The additional standards, which came into effect in 2017, were largely a response to the Human Rights Commission's report on sexual harassment ...

In a week, ANU's media image has transformed from scandalous to sweet. The university has just unveiled a new undergraduate admissions process, intended to enhance ‘educational opportunity’. The process, first announced by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Marnie Hughes-Warrington in her blog, ...

Amid the global, pre-Royal Wedding fervour, the English government made significant higher education reforms. First, on 1 January this year, it founded the Office for Students (OfS): a new university watchdog. Then, in mid-February, it announced the "biggest shake-up to higher ...

Some 30 American universities have partnered with Facebook, yet most are keeping schtum on the details. By consulting with Facebook, Washington, D.C.-based publication Inside Higher Ed uncovered that the institutions have signed up to its Sponsored Academic Research Agreement. Beginning in late 2016, 17 institutions joined ...

New statistics show the most research-intensive group is postgraduate research students. So, they want to be paid for it. According to ABS figures released last week, 57 per cent of hours spent on research in Australia are performed by postgraduate students. ...

A version of party politics is at play at ANU, with left and right factions clashing over the university's new Western civilisation degree. As Campus Review presaged at the degree's launch late last year, some groups are taking issue with ...

Futurist Phil Ruthven thinks the kids are more than alright. The founder of global economic and social market research firm IBISWorld and the newly formed Ruthven Institute has nearly 50 years of experience, as well as access to volumes of big ...

It's mostly a higher education good news story: providers, for the fourth consecutively year, scored highly in the national Student Experience Survey. Administered by ANU's Social Research Centre on behalf of the government and published via the Quality Indicators for Learning ...