Staff at the University of Newcastle will be on the picket lines today over job security, fair pay and safe working conditions after the union said management had been “dragging” negotiations.  The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said members of ...

A ghostwriter who has written thousands of essays for students at major Australian universities is highlighting the issue of contract cheating, saying he worries about medical students who have never completed an assignment. For more than five years, the Kenyan ...

A key federal government research body, the National Health and Medical Research Council, has struck a blow for open inquiry by requiring all scholarly work it funds to be freely available as soon as it is published. The new rule, ...

University of Surrey, UK vice chancellor and President Max Lu shares his experiences of putting in place a transitionary three-year strategy responding to the combination of Brexit and pandemic recovery. The strategy focuses on addressing the student experience, increasing research ...

A hundred mid-career researchers from 21 Australian universities have received a grant through the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships scheme to develop research of national interest.  Funded by the Australian Government, the Future Fellowships scheme focuses on mid-career researchers from ...

Doctoral students are a lifeblood of Australia’s universities, estimated at contributing some two-thirds of research output. Recent years have seen a global growth in the number of students enrolling into PhD programs, but this growth has been accompanied by a ...

New research shows workplace bullying does not arise from interpersonal issues or personality clashes but is linked to organisational and management issues and impacts every sector, including tertiary education. In Australia, around one in 10 workers is exposed to ongoing ...

The University of Sydney’s student newspaper has received mixed reviews over its provocative front page coverage of the Queen’s death. The front page of Honi Soit bore the headline “Queen dead, Charles next”, with a photoshopped image of the Queen lying in ...

Australia’s technology universities have called on the Albanese government to sidestep current constraints on spending with a “long-term and progressive plan of action” to improve post-school education. The Australian Technology Network, representing six universities, said the government should build on ...

New research suggests dogs could be the solution to reduce university stress and boost staff and student mental health, while increasing their motivation, engagement and overall wellbeing.  The University of Queensland is looking at the effect of animal-assisted education on ...