The full-time employment slump for those who have recently graduated from postgraduate degrees may have stabilised, new figures from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) have shown, but there’s still a stark gender gap in starting salaries. GCA’s Postgraduate Destinations 2015 report ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A world of higher learning and opportunities can be found on university campuses;but disadvantaged students often must see it to desire it. When I was 11 years old, I went with a church boys’ club to visit Melbourne University. We ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s new Cabinet has been broadly met with praise from the education industry, though the shuffling of the Vocational Education and Training portfolio, from Scott Ryan to Karen Andrews, has chagrined some corners of the VET sector. ...

The re-elected Coalition Government’s foremost priority should be to reassure all Australians that the nation will not be left behind in the global and economic transition now underway, Universities Australia chair professor Barney Glover said in a statement. “This election ...

One of the leaders behind a program mentoring high school students from refugee backgrounds is marking this year’s World Refugee Week by calling for those on temporary protection visas and asylum seekers to be eligible for federal government assistance to meet ...