There are over half a million international students studying in Australia, according to federal Department of Education figures, and most are satisfied with their study experience. The latest International Student Survey, which garnered responses from 47,810 university students, showed that ...

It sure is a sticky issue: in the wake of two recent reports advocating for the imposition of a sugar tax, Liberal frontbenchers have reaffirmed their opposition to the proposed levy. At a doorstop interview in Tasmania on Tuesday 21 ...

Monash University vice-chancellor professor Margaret Gardner is to be the next chair of Universities Australia (UA). Gardner is set to succeed current UA chair professor Barney Glover, who is also vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University. Gardner will take the reins ...

Activists have claimed a University of Oxford building and turned it into a homeless shelter, just before it was to be redeveloped into student accommodation. At the feet of the “city of dreaming spires”, as poet Matthew Arnold once dubbed ...

Today’s students must be prepared for a continuously changing future in which adaptability and creativity will be highly prized. May I invite you to consider for a brief moment how your life’s journey has unfolded and taken you to the ...

Dr Frederic Gilbert is a philosopher and ethicist in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He has been studying the positive and negative effects of implantable brain technologies, which are used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s disease ...

Most people with smartphones receive push notifications, whether they be for Facebook, news alerts or even messages from dating apps. And according to Brent Stafford, director of the Asia Pacific branch of HERE, a map software developing company, universities could ...

The devil is always in the details, including those in sweeping reforms like federal education minister Simon Birmingham’s VET Student Loans scheme. A spokesperson for Birmingham has admitted that MPs and senators voted on the VET Student Loans scheme without ...

New South Wales’ 11 universities, TAFE NSW and the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) have collaborated in a mission to produce innovative graduates. SSE chief executive Nick Kaye described it as, "a larger common platform, reaching for common goals. I ...

Dr Daniel Skorich is a psychology researcher at the University of Queensland. He has been researching autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and has published a paper that shows the relationship between clusters of social interaction characteristics that were previously thought to ...