The Monash University Council appointed human trafficking and gender-based violence expert Professor Sharon Pickering as its 10th vice-chancellor and president last Wednesday. The Professor of Criminology will formally start the role on Monday, January 29, serving as VC and president ...

Six Indigenous students from Monash University's National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) are completing a 10-week internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. Any First Nation student completing a science, technology, engineering or maths degree (STEM) in an Australian ...

More than 100,000 students and staff at Monash University will have access to free mental health and wellbeing support through a new smartphone app. The Thrive smartphone app was rolled out to the Monash community – providing mental health support ...

Monash University is facing an estimated $9 million back pay claim from its casual academics after the Fair Work Commission rejected the university’s bid to head off the claim by retrospectively altering its enterprise agreement with staff. The commission’s full bench ...

International students studying in Australia are going hungry at an "alarming rate" according to a new report. Monash University researchers interviewed 60 overseas students across Melbourne last year and found nearly half were struggling to afford basic groceries due to ...

Universities should review their PhD courses to ensure students gain professional skills and develop a network to help them land a job after they graduate, according to a new study. Research from Monash University has found a growing number of ...

Monash University researchers will collaborate with Fiji National University (FNU) as part of a research venture to address the effects of climate change in the Pacific. The Pacific Action for Climate Transitions (PACT) online research centre, launched Friday, will be based ...

Monash Vice-Chancellor Margaret Gardner and University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Deborah Terry are the only two Australian women leading a top global university, according to the latest higher education rankings. For International Women's Day in March, Times Higher Education analysed data ...

Monash University has run away with the honours in The Australian’s 2023 list of the nation’s top researchers and research institutions in 250 fields of academic endeavour. A Monash researcher was in first place in 31 of the research fields ...

Monash University has appointed former health and aged care minister Greg Hunt to be the chair of the Turner Advisory Council for Brain and Mental Health. The retired politician, who previously served under the previous Morrison government, will act as ...