It may not matter for graduate salaries, but for reputation, rankings are king. So, the Group of Eight (Go8) will be chuffed to see that they have not only maintained their excellence in the latest global ratings; they have enhanced it. ...

A global news agency holds our universities in high research esteem, but not as high as those from South Korea, Japan and China. Monash University – the top Australian institution to place in the Reuters 2018 ranking of the Asia Pacific’s ...

Against a backdrop of high-profile junior doctor suicides, Flinders University is introducing novelty into its medical degree. The Adelaide-based institution is piloting a music subject for second-year students, as part of the degree's new, mandatory personal and professional development stream. Its coordinators hope ...

You know a paper is almost certainly ethically clean when it undermines its affiliated institutions' business models. Notwithstanding the fact that two of its authors work at Go8 member UNSW, Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia? finds it ...

I never got to know Angel*. She would appear in my journalism class sporadically, and when she did, always sat by herself. She never spoke in class, unless spoken to by the lecturer. Then, she would reply in broken English, ...

For the first time, higher education providers will be assessed for registration renewal purposes on their provision of student support services. The additional standards, which came into effect in 2017, were largely a response to the Human Rights Commission's report on sexual harassment ...

Victoria University is so pleased with its 'block model' – whereby one subject is taught at a time – that is it extending this university-wide. From this year, it was only applied to first-year subjects. By 2020, both undergraduate and ...

We hear about their extreme highs and lows, but we don’t often hear the everyday thoughts of migrant and refugee young people in Australia. Not every one is a Duckie Thot or the victim of an unprovoked attack. There are Muhammads, ...

Yesterday, Xanana Gusmão's Alliance of Change for Progress (AMP) – an opposition coalition – clinched election victory in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor). Gusmão, Timor-Leste's first and fourth Prime Minister, is commonly viewed as a national hero, due to his resistance ...

In a week, ANU's media image has transformed from scandalous to sweet. The university has just unveiled a new undergraduate admissions process, intended to enhance ‘educational opportunity’. The process, first announced by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Marnie Hughes-Warrington in her blog, ...