The word entrepreneur conjures up images of people like the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, who famously dropped out of university. But, in fact, 95 per cent of company founders have at least a bachelor degree; 45 per cent have more ...

For many Australians, their new year’s resolution is a career change, a new survey has shown. Get Qualified Australia (GQA),  a recognition of prior learning (RPL) specialist, recently interviewed 1000 Australians about what they want to do with their career. ...

The Australian National University is continuing its rankings run. Times Higher Education has rated it the most international university in Australia. THE today unveiled the 2016 list of the 200 most international universities in the world. Australia has 24 listed, making it ...

The University of Sydney is showing Aboriginal schoolchildren what it has to offer. Federal Education Department data reveals Indigenous enrolments at country universities far outweighs that at city counterparts, despite the fact that over the past two years, the Universities Admission Centre has recorded ...

Girl power can help solve Australia’s chronic shortage of engineers. Every year, Australia imports 12,000 engineers to fill jobs. One-quarter of these come on temporary work visas. Only 6000 are graduates from Australian universities. This trend has gone on for the ...

Quality over quantity is professor Brian Schmidt’s vision for the Australian National University. The Nobel Laureate and astrophysicist took the reins as vice-chancellor of ANU at the beginning of this year, promising to “take a great university and make it better”. For Schmidt, this ...

Mandatory 'back doors' into secure, encrypted data could compromise university research worldwide, a cybersecurity expert has warned. US and UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been pushing for all encrypted data to have a back door that government can ...