Mark Scott has signed on the dotted line to become the next vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney. The secretary of the NSW Department of Education will take up the mantle in July. Former vice-chancellor Michael Spence wrapped up his ...

China has cemented itself as a dominant player in the global university market, with five of the country’s universities taking out the top five positions in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings. China is the first ...

How will university strategy be impacted by the pandemic? And what are the most important long-term drivers of change ahead? Local business links or global digital disruption?  These are two of the biggest questions facing our sector as the cycle ...

A study including people who are unable to visualise mental images has suggested that “imagery is an emotional thought amplifier”. For the study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers guided 46 study participants (22 with aphantasia, and ...

An Australian National University study has conceded the online war on drugs may never be won despite ongoing attempts from law enforcement agencies to disrupt networks selling lethal synthetic opioids. The dark web is a hidden collective of internet sites only accessible ...

Universities Australia (UA) chair Professor Deborah Terry will address the National Press Club today to highlight the importance of university experts delivering evidence-based, trusted advice to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis, commissioned by UA and conducted by ...

CampusReview · HEDx Podcast - Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been skinny dipping - Episode 21 Jack Goodman, founder and executive chair of Studiosity, joins the HEDx podcast to discuss how his business, which began ...

While failure to train may equate to training to fail, it is the implementation of organisational training where the true value and return on investment in skills development is achieved. In part 1 of this series – titled Training and ...

The pandemic has many characteristics of a global conflict.  War is often about turmoil and chaos and we have had much exposure to that in the last year. Wars often last a long time. Our need to deal with further ...

International virus experts are demanding another investigation into the source of COVID-19, amid concerns China had too much control over the last. In an open letter, academics from across the globe, including the Australian National University, called for an “unrestricted international forensic ...