Those who live closer to a university are more likely to aspire to attending one, research has found. An Australian Catholic University study analysed data from 12,000 adolescents, surveyed in a federal government Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth, to explore the ...

The University of Sydney is taking a hard line on its new mathematics prerequisites that come into force in 2019. If students want to study STEM-related courses – or business and economics – at the university, they will have to ...

Macquarie University’s Macquarie Graduate School of Management, has been ranked the top Australian business school by the Financial Times for the second year in a row. MGSM moved up 12 places to number 56 globally, and is one of only ...

An academic will explore Antarctica on an icy hunt for dinosaurs. This isn’t the plotline for a Jurassic Park spinoff; but what one University of Queensland paleontologist will be doing from February 2 through March 24. Dr Steve Salisbury is part of a 12-person ...

A $53.3 million Deakin University engineering facility has opened its doors, and the vice-chancellor has assured it will educate the graduates Australia needs to become the innovation nation. The 6700-square-metre Deakin University Centre for Advanced Design and Engineering Training (CADET), ...

Evidence of a ninth planet in Earth's solar system, recently discovered by California Institute of Technology researchers, has sent the space science community into a spin – and imaginations are once again looking out to the stars. Caltech astronomers Mike Brown, and ...

Oncology provider The Icon Group is partnering with the University of Canberra for a new cancer treatment clinic on campus. The facility will have two radiotherapy bunkers and an oncology department run by Icon. It will provide healthcare to the local ...

A vice-chancellor has downplayed the relevance of the ATAR as a measure of potential student success – especially when it comes to teaching degrees. Professor Peter Dawkins, of Victoria University, argued that ATARs are often meaningless when measuring a student’s potential in university. ...

Scientists have made the grim discovery of a 10,000-year-old massacre site on the shores of a Kenyan lake. The Cambridge University-led expedition recovered 12 skeletons, of men and women, at Nataruk near Lake Turkana. Some skeletons had their skulls crushed, ...

Young people can be hamstrung in the job hunt by their own pessimistic attitudes, an expert has warned. An international survey by IT consultant Infosys found that Australian youth are not confident they have the tech skills needed to get ...