A huge deadline is looming for almost three million university students saddled with student debt, who have just six days before they are hit with a big payment increase. From June 1, the indexation rate applied to HECS–HELP loans will ...

Sydney University staff fronted the picket lines once again yesterday in an historic strike to advance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff rights.   This marks the third staff strike in the last two weeks. According to National Tertiary Education Union ...

So much has been said over the past two years with regards to education and learning in an increasingly digital environment, from the rapid shift to online learning through necessity, to future plans for a hybrid education landscape. But there is one ...

Universities are sleepwalking on gender equity and must implement stronger policies to address sexism and increase womens' representation in higher levels of academia, sector leaders have said. Higher education consultancy HEDx held its second live conference event in Sydney's Museum ...

The worldwide expansion of demand for higher education during the past half century has fostered systemic national reform efforts to expand access to greater proportions of respective populations. Educational technologies have exponentially accelerated these efforts and changed their means of ...

A new RMIT vocational course aims to educate students to better recognise and respond adequately to victim-survivors of sexual violence and harm. The Course in Recognising and Responding to Sexual Violence is targeted at practitioners, support workers, service users and ...

One of Australia’s top doctors has issued an urgent warning after killer virus monkeypox was found on our shores. A Victorian man is in hospital after being diagnosed with monkeypox, while another in NSW is also suspected of being infected ...

President Michael Crow is approaching 20 years as President of Arizona State University which has been ranked as the most innovative US university for seven years running. He joined the HEDx podcast to share a clear message of the need ...

Over two-thirds of Australian university students believe that the switch to online learning has made getting away with cheating easier, new research shows. An analysis of over 1,000 student responses by independent research firm Student Edge found many had either ...

Nature has a positive impact on both physical and mental health; it reduces stress, relaxes mind and body, increases creativity and boosts focus. Pressure to find funding, publishing deadlines and team management are, among others, a common stress denominator in ...