Almost all of Australia’s tech start-ups are in Sydney and Melbourne, but the federal opposition is hoping to change this. Labor has just released its third package of innovation reforms, including a Regional Innovation Fund. The announcement, made on Friday, came ahead of ...

The Australian National University has topped the Excellence in Research Australia rankings, amid a strong showing nationwide. The ERA results, compiled by the Australian Research Council and released today, showed 95 per cent of ANU's broad-field research was rated above ...

Teachers and administrators at Sydney Navitas English colleges have taken industrial action as part of a long-running pay dispute. The Independent Education Union and Navitas have been in negotiation since February. The college has offered staff a 2 per cent ...

Good campus design speaks to the place and culture in which an institution sits, a leading architect has said. Robert McGauran, founding director of MGS Architects, said universities need to include the broader community in design plans in order to understand how ...

Fresh data indicating that 1 in 10 teaching students are failing pre-service literacy and numeracy testing has sparked calls for a tightening of university course entry standards. The new tests, being piloted with the view to national implementation as a ...

Australia needs a consistent innovation incentive for business to invest in research and development, a report has argued. Australia relies on the R&D Tax Incentive to encourage businesses to invest in research and development. Businesses that put $20,000 into R&D ...

Universities don’t lack innovation, they just don’t share knowledge with one another effectively, the leader of a US network of universities has said. As a consequence, universities frequently double up on research, Bridget Burns said. Burns is executive director of the ...

Melbourne has outshone Sydney and Canberra has held its place above Brisbane in the latest world ranking of best student cities released by university rankings agency QS. Despite recent tragic events in Paris, the French capital retained top spot in the index, ahead of Melbourne, ...

The first Indigenous psychologist to graduate in Australia has been shortlisted for the 2015 Human Rights Medal – though she wants recently retired Aboriginal AFL star Adam Goodes to win the honour. National Mental Health Commissioner professor Pat Dudgeon, from ...

Legislation to protect students from unscrupulous vocational education providers has been given the tick of approval by a government-dominated Senate inquiry. In its report tabled in parliament on Monday, the committee says the former Labor government's VET FEE-HELP scheme was ...