Students surveys are around the corner, and like every year there is an increasing concern from academics about the nature of feedback they will receive. A team of researchers at QUT have developed a new programming model which uses machine ...

Australian universities have shone in the latest Shanghai Rankings, with UNSW maintaining its run of having the highest number of academic disciplines ranked worldwide. This year's Global Rankings of Academic Subjects ranked more than 5,000 universities across 96 countries and ...

Flinders University has unveiled a new $100,000 logo more than 60 years after the institution's creation. Due to be rolled out across campuses by the end of the year, the new logo is part of a rebranding campaign to capture ...

We have seen sustained, rapid and substantial growth in rates of participation in global higher education and correspondingly in the size of university providers over the last 20 years.  This has largely been to serve expansion in local domestic markets ...

Nine Australian universities have been awarded government research grants to develop technologies aimed at addressing national security threats. Australian National University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney were among the successful round two recipients of the National ...

Distinguished Professor Susan Scott has always been interested in mathematics, but it was after watching the moon landing while in primary school that she developed her love for physics and gravity, a passion that still hasn't left her 53 years ...

University students will spend thousands more repaying their student loans and graduates will be slugged with a $2.7bn ­interest bill this year, after a huge increase in borrowing rates. Tertiary debt will swell this year after the indexation rate on ...

A recent cyber attack at Deakin University which compromised the data of tens of thousands of students has led experts to place the sector on high alert. Last week, hackers stole the login details of a single Deakin staff member ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have issued a warning about the potential health risks of herbal medicine after a study revealed bak kut teh soup could cause liver failure.  The study analysed four different types of locally purchased packet ...

Block Mode of Teaching (BMT) is a model of teaching where subjects are offered in shorter periods of time. In the traditional semester mode of teaching, four units are normally offered in a 12 week window. In the BMT usually ...