Chances are, either you or someone you know has had laser eye surgery. If it weren't for Canadian Nobel Prize in Physics quarter-winner Donna Strickland, that wouldn't have happened. Yet others seem to be more interested in her gender. In an ...

We've since moved onto banks, but let's not forget the mess we had to mop up a couple of years ago. People were signed up to higher education courses by door-to-door salespeople or via cold calls. Often from low-income communities and ...

I could barely hear Amy Walburn over the chants of her 14 peers. The Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Fine Arts student at UNSW is part of a collective, protesting the university's investment in fossil fuel companies today. The are occupying the ...

It might be a good time to thank a colleague who made you laugh today, if a new study by Australian researchers is to go by. They’ve found a bit of humour goes a long way in the workplace. Researchers ...

Is your university, in every sense, #tobaccofree? After signing the world’s first Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge, La Trobe University is. This means the Melbourne-based university not only prohibits smoking on campus, it has no tobacco-related investments, and will advocate for other organisations ...

Dr Alice Fabbri has never accepted industry money for research, nor have any of her colleagues at the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative within USYD's Charles Perkins Centre. The postdoctoral research fellow is therefore well-placed to illuminate 'truth decay' – a phenomenon that can arise ...

The successes of a few Australian universities on a global ranking aren’t enough to counter the ‘concerning’ national picture – one of stagnation. With 35 institutions included in the 2019 edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, ...

One of the universities "most hostile to intellectual freedom" is also, apparently, its defender. In an op-ed published in The Australian on Tuesday, University of Sydney VC Michael Spence explained why, despite opinions to the contrary, his institution remains a defender of free ...

When principal of Templestowe College, Peter Hutton, was at school, like many of us, he was told that one day, the esoteric-seeming knowledge he gained would be useful. "That hasn't happened yet," Hutton quipped at a recent event. Perhaps this would have been ...

After campaigning for it mid-year, Universities Australia has been heard by Labor, which has committed $300m to university infrastructure investment. Shadow Education Minister Tanya Plibersek announced the 'University Future Fund' in an interview with ABC News Radio on Tuesday. "There's been ...