Many Australian Universities appear to be in short-term financial crisis right now. The perfect storm of soft domestic demand, slowly returning international students, impacted investment income, and rising costs are all combining to make financial pictures the most challenging for ...

Amid Reconciliation Week, the University of Melbourne has launched a new PhD course in Indigenous Knowledge to encourage more research and collaboration with Indigenous communities worldwide. Said to be the first of its kind in Australia, UniMelb's new PhD aims ...

Staff at the University of New South Wales have gone on strike today to secure more permanent roles for casual academic and professional staff. After a year of delayed negotiations, hundreds of UNSW staff and students will be on the ...

Astronomers at Swinburne University will use the new James Webb Space Telescope, located 1.5 million km from earth, to make the first three-dimensional map of the universe as it was in the period known as “cosmic morning”, between 10 and ...

Professor Vivek Goel as President of Waterloo University in Canada is leading an exercise to generate a vision for what Waterloo will look like at 100. This 35 year future planning horizon is unheralded in global universities and generates a unique perspective on risk, ...

Two additional Australian universities have banned the admission of Indian students in response to concerns over fraudulent visa applications. Victoria’s Federation University and Western Sydney University (WSU) have halted recruitment from students from six Indian states, including Punjab, Haryana and ...

International students studying in Australia are going hungry at an "alarming rate" according to a new report. Monash University researchers interviewed 60 overseas students across Melbourne last year and found nearly half were struggling to afford basic groceries due to ...

The global world of higher education has been depicted for generations as a continuously expanding landscape, of campus-based places, where young people visit, reside, and interact. The settings have been for young people to pursue study, experience rites of passage, ...

Data Scientist Stephen Shaw founded birthgap.org following his work surfacing the growing global gaps in birth rates from that required to sustain populations. He has found that all countries will see a dramatic fall in future populations due to births falling below a replacement rate of 2.1. ...

The West Australian government faces strong resistance to mergers from most of the state’s public universities, signalling a major battle ahead if a review now under way recommends joining one or more institutions. Murdoch University vice-chancellor Andrew Deeks said his ...