Melbourne University and the University of Queensland have ranked alongside the world’s top 50 universities in the latest round of higher education rankings.  Released annually by the Shanghai Consultancy, this year’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) featured seven Australian ...

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us as a society, it is to be humble. Despite our collective wealth, advanced scientific knowledge and unprecedented technological capacities, we have been struck and wounded globally by a tricky virus. The ...

Findings from an international genetic study involving the University of Melbourne mean it may now be possible to predict which children are more likely to develop epilepsy later in life based on their genotype. The study looked at febrile seizures ...

Global higher education experts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, what the company calls “their annual deep dive into the relationship between university choice and graduate employment outcomes".  QS states that the rankings “offer a ...

The University of Melbourne is Australia’s sole top 50 entrant in the latest ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), landing at 33. Other Australian universities to crack the top 100 this year include the University of Queensland (51), UNSW ...

The life-threatening and economic hazards of relaxing Covid-19 restrictions before zero community spread is reached validates the decision by NSW to extend its lockdown, researchers suggest. A team of economists, public health experts and modellers from the Australian National University found the ...

Monash and Melbourne University researchers have recently released a study highlighting how gender-bias has affected women in the classroom and led to them withdrawing from science subjects such as physics at the undergraduate level.  The study was conducted by Monash ...

Regulators in the US have approved the first new medication for Alzheimer's in nearly two decades. Aducanumab is the first medication intended to slow cognitive decline in people in the early stages of Alzheimer's. It includes antibodies designed to attach ...

For several years now Australia’s universities have achieved remarkable outcomes in some of the world’s most respected rankings, with many institutions entering the world’s top 100. And with its relatively small population of some 25 million, it’s often said that ...

Australia’s oldest intact rock painting has been discovered in Western Australia’s Kimberley Region. The artwork features a 2 metre-long kangaroo and is believed to be about 17,300 years old, University of Melbourne researchers said. The kangaroo is painted on the sloping ...