Australia needs new infrastructure. Now. Over the next 25 years, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane collectively will need to accommodate an extra 5.9 million people. This week, the nation’s population hit 24 million. The boom has contributed to the damnable ...

Houston had no problems after Normanhurst Boys High School students reported mission accomplished on their task to work with NASA robots on the International Space Station. These boys were one of 10 teams sponsored by the University of Sydney to ...

Universities must not adopt a one-size-fits-all approach when crafting their learning abroad programs, an expert has argued. Study abroad is readily sought after by students for a cultural experience, tourism, and something good to whack on a CV. International studies ...

Serial, Making A Murderer, The Jinx. True crime documentaries have hit the Zeitgeist with a populist force over the last 24 months. The convergence of long-form storytelling with fan theories and a collection of intriguing characters has made these titles, along ...

Universities Australia and The Hunting Ground Australia Project have launched a sector-wide campaign to prevent sexual violence. The Hunting Ground Australia project is a philanthropic effort to end sexual assault and harassment in Australia’s universities. It takes its name from critically ...

Rhetoric around youth unemployment must change, an expert has argued. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures rest youth unemployment at 12.44 per cent, although it declined in the last quarter. Debate on the issue has centred on the notion of a skills gap – education ...

A University of New South Wales student has used the toilet seat to marry two of his passions in a master’s of philosophy thesis – architecture and altruism. Nick Papas partnered with the Sago Network to research how to rollout low-cost, eco-friendly toilets ...

A University of Sydney expert has launched a scathing attack on a federal government schools deradicalisation program that seeks to follow New South Wales’ example. In a joint announcement, federal education minister Simon Birmingham and federal justice minister Michael Keenan, explained this ...

“The children, as soon as they have become at all expert in this tracing of the letters, take great pleasure in repeating it with closed eyes, letting the sandpaper lead them in following the form which they do not see.” This ...

University workforces must move away from the traditional 40/40/20 workforce model and embrace flexibility, the sector’s employer association has argued. The 40/40/20 model typically allocates 40 per cent of academic staff’s workload to research, 40 per cent to teaching and 20 ...