Despite improvements in recent years, students with a refugee background are struggling with the transition from high school to university, with new research showing many feel socially excluded and isolated while studying. While Australian universities are collectively aiming for growth ...

As a Master of Information Systems and Technology student at Curtin University, Muhammad Majid, 28, was so poor he couldn't afford textbooks. He would either borrow them from the library – if they weren't  already borrowed by someone else, or ...