The Victorian government will invest $155 million to establish an Australian Institute of Infectious Disease in Melbourne. Premier Daniel Andrews made the funding announcement, which will form part of this month’s state budget, on Friday morning. The total cost of ...

Australian universities have missed out on a spot among the top 20 in a ranking of scientific impact, as the list compilers add two new indicators covering "heavily debated" topics. China and the United States dominated the CWTS Leiden Ranking’s ...

For a university publishing house, it was shocking. On Wednesday, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) chief executive Louise Adler resigned after the university announced it would change its focus from commercial to academic publishing. She was hastily followed out by Chairman Laurie ...

Would you pay to study law at the University of Melbourne if it cost only a third more at Harvard? In Australia, this financial gap is set to decrease, if trends continue. Study Move has identified that international student fees ...

China, India, and beyond Did you know that 25 years ago, Australia hosted more international students from Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and the UK than it does today? That could be set to change with the advent of several new free ...

Australian universities are celebrating jumps, big and small, up an international ranking dominated by the United States and China. Released annually by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) presents the top 500 universities based on six indicators, including the ...

Building expert heads to Harvard The University of Melbourne’s Philip Goad has been chosen as the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard for the 2019–2020 academic year. The visiting professorship was established at Harvard in ...

 Lest. We. Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine)."  – Yassmin Abdel-Magied When you hear about slavery for 400 years – for 400 years! – that sounds like a choice. Like, you was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all? ...

Overlooking a stitched plaid couch designed for two, a damaged clock ticks anxiously. On the small couch, an old laptop rests, illuminating the neglected appliance. Yet, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and here the clock is ...

'Work smarter, not harder' may be a hackneyed adage, but the University of Melbourne is putting it to use. It has developed Write Smarter: Feel Better - a mental health and productivity program for graduate research students. By offering communal writing sessions ...