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 ...

Public universities must broaden their funding base to thrive and survive, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, has said. Nicholas Dirks, whose institution was ranked as the top public university in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said government ...

Funding stability and a long-term outlook are key to ensuring a bright research future for Australia, a senior researcher told a conference yesterday. Speaking at the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in Melbourne, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and University of ...

New research from the University of New South Wales has found that teenagers who smoke cannabis at least once a week are less likely to finish school, enrol in university or get a degree. The study focused on 3600 young people ...

The Go8 has lashed back against accusations that its research funding proposal is unfair and self-centred. The group of large Australian universities is urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to fix the country's research system by limiting which projects gain access to taxpayer funds ...

More than 80 per cent of residents in the Ballina region oppose lethal responses to shark bites, a new University of Sydney study has shown. Researchers conducted a representative study of 500 residents in the Ballina state electorate, which includes Lennox ...

An esteemed human rights barrister will tonight deliver the University of Melbourne school of government’s 2015 Hamer Oration. Under the theme of What sort of country are we, Julian Burnside QC will critically examine Australia’s attitude towards human rights and ...