Multiple universities across the US faced bomb threats in the past week, including four Ivy league schools. Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities all alerted students to the threat on Sunday (November 7 AEDT) and evacuated several campuses. Police deemed the ...

Academic freedom remains a matter of concern for academics throughout Australia and beyond, however this needs to be put in context when considered in the international arena. Yojana Sharma (2021) recently remarked upon a survey of some 200 Singaporean academics ...

Curtin university researchers will be carrying out a first-of-its-kind examination of stillbirths among Aboriginal families in a project supported by the federal government.  Led by Associate Professor Carrington Shepherd from the Curtin medical school, the project will involve researchers and ...

VC David Lloyd of the University of South Australia shares insights from running the first staff jam across his whole university aimed at bringing staff engagement into its strategy; and repeating it again 4 years later. He describes how one unforeseen ...

The University of Queensland has uncovered a near 200-year-old first edition of the first known vampire novel in one of its libraries, which could well have been the travel reading of Charles Sturt as he voyaged to Australia. Vampire stories ...

The higher education sector in Australia has been through a rapid cycle of change and disruption over the past two years, starting with a shift in the way university places are funded. In this piece we reflect on the impact ...

The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) has been independently verified as the UK’s first carbon neutral university, but debate persists over whether student travel emissions should remain optional to report.  Global certification organisation BSI verified the school’s ...

In an exciting development for the teaching profession, La Trobe University’s unique Nexus program has recently produced its first group of classroom-ready secondary school teachers. In their first year, students work part-time in schools and receive direct mentoring opportunities and professional ...

Over 28 million more years of life were lost in 31 countries last year than expected, based on a study shedding light on the impact of the pandemic. International researchers looked at 37 upper middle and high income countries or ...

The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...