Melbourne university students, affiliates and alumni have now the opportunity to bring their research to life thanks to two major funding partnerships, which UniMelb calls a first in Australia at this scale.  The university has secured two partnerships with Breakthrough ...

The Morrison government is pushing for universities to shift from “publish or perish” incentives to focus on commercialising their research, industry needs and “national priorities”. Announcing $242.7 million for a yet-to-be-selected small group of “trailblazer” universities, the government wants to ...

Today, in UTS' 'brown paper bag', a symposium on advancing the public benefit of universities took place. Resisting commercialisation The need for universities to focus on research and education – not marketing – was a major topic. Professor Raewyn Connell of USYD ...

Sarah Hanson-Young: "Code for cuts is what this is." Simon Birmingham: "Sarah, you might love esoteric little papers, but we actually think that it is important that billions of taxpayer dollars going into research delivers things that are of benefit ...

Global rankings of Australian universities are already under threat as government cuts cast a long shadow and pressure rises for alternative sources of funding.   By Louis White. Professor Ed Byrne has some bad news for the university sector. The vice-chancellor ...