A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel “ass-ets”. Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week’s work ...

Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...

One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has found. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...

The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...

The stroke of a keyboard is all it takes for the University of Melbourne to detect ghost-written essays under a new anti-cheating system the institution is trialing. Cadmus, developed by UniMelb alumni turned entrepreneurs Herk Kailis and Robbie Russo, is a ...

The head of the TAFE chairs’ lobby group is “probably not” confident renewed funding and federal policy stability will flow into vocational education by the end of the year. TAFE Chairs Australia is calling on the federal government to guarantee ...

The University of Technology Sydney has developed Australia’s first scholarship program for North Koreans who have fled to South Korea. About $200,000 has been set aside for five students to learn English through UTS:INSEARCH, the university’s pathways program. The students get tuition for ...

If you had access to a nation-spanning network of cameras and drones, how would you use it? For one Australian National University scientist, the answer is to spy on trees. Dr Tim Brown, research fellow at ANU, has helped launch ...

A uni chief describes the bonus ATAR points scheme offered by the four West Australian public universities as a ‘carrot’ to incentivise senior high school students into taking harder maths subjects. The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin ...

Along with earning a green tick of approval, the University of New England’s decision to develop its own solar farm is also good economics – the university’s vice-chancellor has argued. UNE has announced that half its energy will soon come from ...