A new report from Mission Australia shows 10 per cent of Indigenous young men aged 15 to 19, and 5 per cent of Indigenous women of this age, rate their happiness as zero out of 10. Only 1 per cent ...

Nature Research, the publishing group behind the prestigious scientific journal Nature, has launched a website to make complex science accessible to the general public.  The npj Science of Learning Community website was launched in collaboration with the University of Queensland. It aims to make ...

The University of Technology Sydney is snapping at the heels of the sandstone institutions in the global rankings race, becoming the first local non-Go8 institution to climb into the top 200 of QS’s World University Rankings 2016–17. UTS, placed at 193, ...

While Queensland University of Technology has been saying for a while it has no direct investments in fossil fuels, university money has been flowing into such shares via QIC, the university's investment manager. Now it appears this no longer be the case. ...

Dr Megan Williams is an early-career researcher employed full time at Western Sydney University, who graduated from her PhD in 2015. Williams is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people of central New South Wales and also has English and Irish heritage. ...

University of Western Australia vice-chancellor professor Paul Johnson has announced he will step down at the end of the year. Johnson said he declined a new five-year contract offer from UWA after “a great deal of reflection”. He has been vice-chancellor ...

Why wouldn’t you want to lead the University of Canberra? That’s what professor Deep Saini asked Campus Review on his first day as vice-chancellor. Taking the reins last Thursday, September 1, Saini endorsed UC as “a very attractive institution at ...

Dylan Griffiths is the education officer for the University of Sydney Students Representative Council. He’s currently a lead instigator of an occupation protest at the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), which has been the centre of a merger and ...

A University of Southern Queensland ecologist has withdrawn from his scheduled keynote presentation from a conservation conference, following outrage from animal rights activists. Dr Ben Allen, who’s made headlines for arguing that wild dog carcasses should be exported to Asian countries, ...

Universities love to boast about the donations they receive, but a recent gift to the Australian National University is something special. It’s an $800,000 painting by Chinese artist Zhang Peili, which was previously thought to have been lost. Flying Machine, ...