Melbourne has outshone Sydney and Canberra has held its place above Brisbane in the latest world ranking of best student cities released by university rankings agency QS. Despite recent tragic events in Paris, the French capital retained top spot in the index, ahead of Melbourne, ...

The first Indigenous psychologist to graduate in Australia has been shortlisted for the 2015 Human Rights Medal – though she wants recently retired Aboriginal AFL star Adam Goodes to win the honour. National Mental Health Commissioner professor Pat Dudgeon, from ...

Research funds should be allocated based on commercialisation success as well as quality, the new chair of Innovation Australia has said. Speaking to Campus Review, Ferris reiterated the federal government’s message of establishing a more innovative nation. He said roughly ...

  Robots will get young people back on the farm, a University of Sydney roboticist has said. Australia’s agriculture sector is facing an ageing population and Australian Bureau of statistics figures show that since 1980, the number of people in ...

Torrens University Australia shouldn’t receive public funding, the Greens have argued. In legislation recently passed through Parliament , Torrens University Australia has been listed as a Table B provider – meaning it’s eligible for public research funding. The Greens attempted to ...

The federal government has launched a match-making website where companies can search all the intellectual property patents Australia’s universities and public research bodies hold. The assistant minister for innovation, Wyatt Roy, launched Source IP in late November. It was developed ...

“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women.” That quote from Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be US Secretary of State, was Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek’s message at the launch of a University of Melbourne program ...