The Turnbull administration has put the Coalition’s higher education reform agenda on ice. Education Minister Simon Birmingham announced the government would not seek to enact any reforms to the sector until 2017 at the earliest. Speaking on Thursday morning at ...

Australian universities have performed strongly in the latest international rankings but the government needs to boost higher education funding to sustain the trend, a key monitoring group says. The 2015-16 Times Higher Education World University rankings released on Wednesday show ...

The Go8 has lashed back against accusations that its research funding proposal is unfair and self-centred. The group of large Australian universities is urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to fix the country's research system by limiting which projects gain access to taxpayer funds ...

More than 80 per cent of residents in the Ballina region oppose lethal responses to shark bites, a new University of Sydney study has shown. Researchers conducted a representative study of 500 residents in the Ballina state electorate, which includes Lennox ...

Those who sign up and complete MOOCs are getting a genuine return on their time and effort with new research indicating that almost three quarters report career benefits and nearly two thirds reporting educational benefits. An online survey of about ...

An esteemed human rights barrister will tonight deliver the University of Melbourne school of government’s 2015 Hamer Oration. Under the theme of What sort of country are we, Julian Burnside QC will critically examine Australia’s attitude towards human rights and ...

Despite tough new standards for undergraduate teaching degrees New South Wales HSC students are being encouraged to consider a career in teaching. Adrian Piccoli, New South Wales education minister wants high achieving HSC students to consider becoming a teacher. But ...

An Australian National University defence policy expert is calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to reconfigure national defence priorities closer to home. Dr John Blaxland, senior fellow at ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, said what happens in the immediate ...

University of Sydney researchers are conducting the first-ever count of Australians living alone with dementia, in an effort to better understand their experiences. Estimates suggest almost 70,000 Australians – or a third of people with dementia not in aged care ...

With a tumultuous year coming up, it’s more important than ever that students’ needs and desires guide the way. In Queensland universities, leaders are looking to a ‘cliff year’ on the horizon, and considering how best to chart a course ...