While there are many reasons for students to commence a university degree, from self-development to fighting boredom, the majority of university entrants are motivated by a drive to build a successful professional career. This is why the lion's share of ...

The University of Technology Sydney has indicated it will commit to fossil fuel divestment by the end of the year. In a public University Council meeting, acting chancellor professor Brian Wilson responded to a question asking if UTS would commit ...

Australia’s immigration detention centres are many things, divisive being one. This week, the nation watched as guerrilla protestors crashed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s first major economic speech since the federal election. One stormed the stage, holding a sign directed at news ...

Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students? The answer may depend on which elected official you’re referring to. But the Australian National University’s Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public ...

A report predicts that Charles Darwin University, Western Sydney University and Federation University may challenge Australia’s old and elite universities by 2030. The Class of 2030 from higher education consulting firm Firetail, argued there is a new generation of universities who ...

Last Christmas, 900 academics signed a letter, addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, calling for the immediate release of asylum seeker children in detention. Eight months later, this movement’s ranks have doubled. Now they’re calling for all immigration detention centres ...

The Australian National University vice-chancellor, professor Brian Schmidt, has thrown his support behind academics’ calls for a formal treaty to deepen the economic relationship between Australia and China. These proposals are tabled in the Australia-China Joint Economic Report, a joint ...

Despite data showing first-year undergraduate student drop-out rates have hit their highest point in eight years, the Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor has sidestepped concerns about these figures, saying data-driven learning analytics can handle it. Professor Greg Craven told a policy forum yesterday that ...

An expert has warned a discipline war is brewing among the STEM subjects, and she expects engineering to come out on the bottom. STEM is the oft-used acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the focus of politicians and educators who are trying to ...

A Grattan Institute report released today showing that graduate positions in STEM are scarce has – somewhat ironically – led the federal education minister to say that “we should not allow statistics like this to sway people from the importance ...