NYU medical students – current and future – will obtain their degrees for free. Announced last Thursday, the measure is designed to relieve students of "rising", burdensome study debt, and thereby, "attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine". The university cited another ...

Avital Ronell, a 66-year-old NYU academic, is being investigated in relation to a sexual harassment complaint made against her by a male PhD student. And there is outrage. But hold the confirmation bias: the outrage is against the accuser, and, ...

Are students sexist against female lecturers? New York University researchers Pascal Wallisch, a clinical assistant professor of psychology and Julie Cachia, an adjunct instructor in advanced psychological statistics sought to analyse this claim, made by various academics, who based them on ...

We’ve all likely heard the statistics: gay, bisexual, intersex or transgender people comprise only up to 11 per cent of the Australian population, yet they are three times as likely to experience depression. One survey found almost 1 in 2 ...

We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s and noughties, America's leading public universities watched Australia's success with envy as we educated hundreds of thousands of full-fee paying ...