The University of South Australia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2016. To mark this occasion and introduce the latest batch of cohorts to the Adelaide campus, the UniSA team has compiled a factbook highlighting 101 major achievements – "things you might not ...

The federal government is directing the Higher Education Standards Panel to examine university entrance requirements to improve transparency. This follows long-running commentary about ATAR and recent comments from professor Ian Jacobs, University of New South Wales vice-chancellor, calling for the system ...

A University of Sydney expert has launched a scathing attack on a federal government schools deradicalisation program that seeks to follow New South Wales' example. In a joint announcement, federal education minister Simon Birmingham and federal justice minister Michael Keenan, explained this ...

A device implanted in a brain blood vessel may one day enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again, University of Melbourne researchers have announced. Limbs wouldn't be reactivated, but the person's direct thought might be able to control equipment ...

“The children, as soon as they have become at all expert in this tracing of the letters, take great pleasure in repeating it with closed eyes, letting the sandpaper lead them in following the form which they do not see.” This ...

The University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian state government have today announced a $90 million partnership to fund and build a Creative Industries and Performing Arts Development in Hobart. The project will deliver performance and research facilities, including new studios, ...

ATAR cut-offs are not useful measurements of student potential in the demand-driven system, the vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University has argued. ATAR has been the subject of media scrutiny since it was revealed some universities were admitting students 40 points ...

University workforces must move away from the traditional 40/40/20 workforce model and embrace flexibility, the sector's employer association has argued. The 40/40/20 model typically allocates 40 per cent of academic staff’s workload to research, 40 per cent to teaching and 20 ...

In an early episode of the fourth season of Lena Dunham’s hipster HBO comedy Girls, the auteur’s character, Hannah, is about to read a short story composition to her classmates in a creative writing workshop. It’s an intimate group. Hannah ...

The ongoing development and introduction of new technology in university environments is changing the nature of tertiary education, providing new revenue streams, competition and disruption, states a report commissioned by the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA) and written by PwC. ...