A commonly cited mantra in higher education circles is that students have been brought up on Facebook and Google and, as such, demand the same experience from the tools offered to them at university. But is this the truth? It ...

The University of Melbourne has officially opened its newest residential facility, a 648-bed Student Village on Leicester Street in Carlton, shorter than a 10-minute walk from the main campus of the venerated institution. Designed to be an environmentally friendly residential facility ...

Glitz, glamour, glitter – three words that aren’t normally associated with universities. Except on Saturday, when the University of Sydney adds its colour to the rainbow parade of Sydney’s Mardi Gras. Getting the float up and running is a race against ...

Many students and their parents have been primed to believe that completing the Higher School Certificate and obtaining the ATAR for university course entry will lead to success; however this is not always the case. With the attrition rate at ...

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has boosted the University of Melbourne’s sustainability agenda with a $9.1 million loan. The money will go to the installation of solar photovoltaic cells, solar thermal, and micro-wind turbines across UniMelb’s infrastructure. These projects form ...

Houston had no problems after Normanhurst Boys High School students reported mission accomplished on their task to work with NASA robots on the International Space Station. These boys were one of 10 teams sponsored by the University of Sydney to ...

Universities Australia and The Hunting Ground Australia Project have launched a sector-wide campaign to prevent sexual violence. The Hunting Ground Australia project is a philanthropic effort to end sexual assault and harassment in Australia’s universities. It takes its name from critically ...

The University of Sydney is taking a hard line on its new mathematics prerequisites that come into force in 2019. If students want to study STEM-related courses – or business and economics – at the university, they will have to ...

The president of the Business Council of Australia, Catherine Livingstone, has been named chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney. Livingstone views her new position as an opportunity to play a different, equally significant role in guiding Australia to create ...

University of Newcastle associate professor Frini Karayanidis has been inducted into the Australian Research Centre’s (ARC) College of Experts, a role offered only to researchers of exemplary standing within the international academic community. Karayanidis, a cognitive neuroscientist, is delighted about her ...