The University of the Sunshine Coast will host a Close the Gap event today (Thursday), as a call for action to address disadvantage among Indigenous Australians. Launched in 2008, Close the Gap day is a national campaign to boost the ...

University of Newcastle Laureate Professor, Kevin Galvin, was this week presented with the prestigious Antoine M. Gaudin Award for scientific and engineering contributions, and is only the fifth Australian to receive the award in its 42-year history. The award focuses ...

The National Union of Students (NUS) and the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) have launched a campaign to fight proposals to changed student loan legislation. The Bury the Bill campaign has seen the two organisations collaborate to instigate change ...

A quick Google search of the term 'millennial' in the 'news' tab yields approximately 2.31 million results. But how many of those were created by actual millennials? A safe guess would be: not many. The New York Times (NYT) is aware ...

The University of Sydney yesterday announced the development of a new component that could revolutionise anti-counterfeiting and anti-fraud technology. Designed by Dr Omid Kavehei and an international team from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the nanotechnology component has ...

“Former senior lecturer in my area was promoted to HoS and I have moved into the courses formerly taught by her and have been able to drop many other ‘bits and pieces’ of teaching i.e., rationalisation of courses taught” - ...

Education professionals this week issued an urgent plea to the government to quarantine university places for Indigenous students against the current funding freeze. The request comes from The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium, whose members say ...

Despite having worked at several of them, Judith Sloan is sceptical of universities. The conservative economist and contributing economics editor at The Australian recently told an audience that she "doesn't trust" universities, and thinks "they’re prepared to let standards slip to put bums ...

A paper co-authored by Dr Thomas Newsome at the University of Sydney has gone viral, and is now ranked sixth among the most-read academic publications. Following on from a document released 26 years ago, the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: ...

Finding full-time work remains a challenge for university graduates, but job opportunities are on their way up, according to economists. The latest data from job search site Indeed revealed that less than 72 per cent of undergraduates found full-time work within ...