Education editor Wade Zaglas here, focusing on the top stories of the week. You can either listen to the podcast or read the summary below. One story that struck me as particularly impressive was Australia being ranked fifth in the ...

Universities around the world are atwitter over ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017, which rates universities' performance in 44 mostly science-based subjects.  Nine Australian universities placed in the top ten institutions in 14 subjects. They are: Australian National University: #7 in Geography, and ...