Universities have welcomed and rallied behind a political consensus for the need to foster innovation, though there are still disagreements over how it can be achieved. The Go8, Innovative Research Universities and the Regional Universities Network have all welcome the importance ...

Requiring prescriptions for codeine, in a vacuum, is highly unlikely to curb a spike in overdoses, a University of New South Wales researcher has said. This comes after the Therapeutic Goods Administration recommended codeine and all drugs containing codeine, including Panadeine ...

Information on how and where funds are spent in universities must be more open to the public, the OECD has said. In his speech to the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, Dirk van Damme, head of the innovation and measuring progress ...

Something must be done to change science’s ‘publish or perish’ culture, the chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics has said. Originally coined in the US, publish or perish refers to pressure in academia to rush research into publication to ...

International students are key for Australia’s prosperity, the vice-chancellor of the University of Wollongong has said. In his address to the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, Paul Wellings said international student numbers would double worldwide over the next two ...