Former attorney-general and UK high commissioner George Brandis has been appointed as professor of national security, law and policy at the Australian National University. The now-retired politician accepted the distinguished position after serving four years as Australia's high commissioner to ...

Online education's journey to becoming core to the whole university – and to all students who make their own choice of how, when and where to gain access to inclusive excellence – is a pointer to the future for hybrid ...

With the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, universities have been forced to undertake online examinations which has made it easier for students to cheat.  According to Associate Professor from the University of South Australia Christopher Deneen, students cheating on ...

An RMIT lecturer who likened teaching to "going to war" has lost his appeal to overturn a dismissal from workplace regulators. Engineering lecturer Dr Amir Reza Zokaei Fard filed an unfair dismissal case to the Fair Work Commission in January ...

Tenured academics feel exploited, trapped in their jobs and experience a sense of ‘survivor's guilt’ from seeing their colleagues being made redundant during COVID-19, a survey has shown. Researchers from Curtin University and Murdoch University spoke with 35 full-time academics ...

Whether it is students or staff, the higher education sector includes people of all ages and all backgrounds, yet age discrimination still occurs.  According to Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne Law School Alysia Blackham, universities may make an ...

Why do ten per cent of Australian students choose non-government (independent) institutions of higher education in preference to universities? With over 140,000 students enrolled in approximately 120 independent higher education institutions, this sector saves the Australian taxpayer the cost of ...

A team of global astronomers from Australian National University have discovered the fastest-growing supermassive black hole of the past 9 billion years. Scientists spotted the extremely bright quasar, a luminous object powered by a supermassive black hole, through a 1.3-metre ...

The MeToo# hashtag had more than 19 million respondents in its first year alone, with many survivors disclosing their stories for the first time. It became, as Tarana Burke - the acknowledged founder of the movement - puts it “one ...

Older people are being portrayed as being in ill health, victims, or being a burden on society in the Australian media, leading experts to call for broader changes in how society perceives ageing. A new QUT study 'Visibility and invisibility ...