The Universities of Sydney and Melbourne have both retained their top 10 positions in the latest edition of a ranking of graduate employability. The 2020 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, compiled by higher education thinktank QS Quacquarelli Symonds, put USyd at ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled the details of a university foreign interference taskforce announced during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. “The information that our universities hold is of interest to foreign actors, and therefore ...

As we celebrate The International Year of Indigenous Languages, it is encouraging to see the latest figures released by Victoria’s Education Department. They show an 8000 per cent improvement in the number of Victorian students studying an Aboriginal language* between ...

The University of Sydney has again been named Australia’s top performing university in a research-only ranking. It jumped from 26 last year to 23 in the 2018–19 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), just behind Peking University. The University of ...

Healing wounds with glue, lighting a path for renewable energy and taking science to the small screen were among the award-winning moves recognised at this year’s Eureka Prize. Presented annually, the Australian Museum’s awards recognise excellence in the fields of ...

If ‘poop hands & green lizards‘ or ‘dino dandruff & asteroids‘ don’t intrigue you, what will? These episodes illustrate the premise of Up & Atom, a radio show for young listeners. Broadcast on Sydney-based independent youth radio station FBi (94.5 FM), the 15-20 minute show aims ...

UNSW Sydney has sent more subjects into a global ranking than any other Australian institution, while another took out one of the top spots. With 38 subjects ranking in the global top 100 of ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects ...

Engineers from the University of Sydney and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have agreed to collaborate on research into artificial intelligence, food technology, clean energy and waste management. The “faculty-to-faculty partnership” will see engineering and information technology students explore new ...

To coincide with World Poetry Day today (March 21), the University of Sydney has named Australian poet, author and teacher Mark Tredinnick, as a writer in residence. A past winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the Cardiff International ...

Last month, former Education Minister Craig Emerson termed university a “civilising experience”. He wasn’t wrong. In a world-first, researchers from the University of Sydney have empirically established that this kind of education indeed develops people’s social skills. University Education and Non-cognitive ...