The University of New England has appointed Professor Chris Moran as the university's new vice-chancellor following the resignation of Brigid Heywood in August last year. Professor Chris Moran, who has been Curtin's University Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research since 2016, said ...

Newcastle University will require thousands of undergraduate students to complete work placements as part of their degrees in efforts to better prepare graduates for the workforce. Starting this year, more than 7000 undergraduate students will have work experience embedded into ...

Hundreds of staff from Southern Cross University will be reimbursed after an independent review uncovered "anomalies in payments, salaries and entitlement" in the university's financial records. Last year, SCU commissioned an independent review into payments made under its most recent ...

Despite more women in Australia studying science, technology, engineering and maths than ever, students and professionals continue to face unconscious bias and unsupportive work environments, according to a new report. Researchers from the South Australian Academy for Gender Equity in ...

Staff from multiple universities will stage major strikes this week over rising frustrations around wage theft, heavy workloads and workforce casualisation. On Wednesday, staff from the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Deakin University will walk off their jobs with ...

Australian universities have ranked among the top world's best business schools, with nine institutions named top-tier for their MBA programs.  US-based CEO Magazine published its annual Global MBA Rankings, drawing data from schools 121 schools across the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America, ...

A harmful parasite was found in freshwater fish last week by a team of researchers, sparking an urgent call for more university research funding. Charles Sturt University researchers, in collaboration with NSW Department of Primary Industries and the Narrandera Fisheries ...

Millions of university students may see their debt increase by thousands of dollars after a bill to pause HECS-HELP indexation was rejected by the Senate. Last year, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi introduced new legislation to freeze student debt in a ...

Deakin University has pushed forward a non-union ballot for staff after wage negotiations with the union reached "an impasse". On Friday, Deakin University's chief people and culture officer Stacey Walton told staff via e-mail that enterprise agreement talks with the ...

Students are still facing barriers when reporting sexual assault and harassment on Australian university campuses despite a sector-wide overhaul of institutional policies and support services. Last month marked one year since the findings of the second Universities’ Australia National Student ...