A Victorian scholarship program is helping turn dreams into reality for Sayali Shah. The 25-year-old student from Pune, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, is one of seven Indian PhD students last week awarded the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarship in ...

It’s not for the faint-hearted, but there’s definitely a reason why a video advertising Perth’s Central Institute of Technology has almost two million views on YouTube. Yes – almost two million. 1,916,460 to be exact, as of the afternoon of March ...

This video cost around $400,000, was conceived by advertising super agency M&C Saatchi and animated by Animal Logic, the digital studio behind Happy Feet.  But this isn’t the latest advert for Coca-Cola – it’s Austrade’s latest salvo in the battle ...

The Group of Eight universities dominate Australian research activity, support and commercialisation but the organisation says that under current government policy they may not be able to compete internationally in future. The Go8 policy note titled "Research Performance of Australian Universities", ...

The peak union for academic staff in Australia has joined a global campaign against Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of academic papers. Elsevier has been criticised for business practices which keep information out of the public domain and a ...

The number of student places at Australian universities has increased by more than a quarter since 2007, figures released by the government show.  Some 545,000 students will be at universities in 2012, an increase of five per cent on the 2011 figure ...

University general/professional staffs are sometimes presented as if they were part of the ‘problem’ rather than as people with key roles to play in universities, a conference in Sydney has heard. “One could be forgiven for thinking that universities only ...

The UQ scandal displays the nuanced trade-off between ethics and transparency writes Bill De Maria. The mighty Brisbane River bear hugs the University of Queensland, showcasing the most picturesque campus setting in Australia. The tree-lined drives and the majestic old sandstone buildings ...

The debate over climate change can get uncivilised fast and nowhere is this more evident than online, where the comments on a blog can go from “I disagree with this” to “You are worse than Hitler” in the blink of ...

The digital age will help everyone learn more, everywhere writes Jennifer Bennett. Online and blended learning offer the opportunity to attend university to more people than ever before, while upending notions of what a university actually is.  Two of Australia’s ...