Reducing the risk of heart attack in the early stages of a bereavement with a common medication has been the focus of new research by the University of Sydney. Professor Geoffrey Tofler, leading the study published in the American Heart ...

There still exists an idealised conception of the university. It’s what makes international rankings plausible, because everybody thinks they know what a university should be and therefore can compare them. In that conception, research is well supported and academics are ...

Negotiations between the University of Sydney and the Ramsay Centre have broken down, with the funding body announcing it will not work with the university on Western civilisation education. Early last year, the University of Sydney put forward a proposal with ...

The centrality of creativity and the arts to learning and the future of the workforce is the focus of a new centre launched this week at the University of Sydney by award-wining playwright Wesley Enoch, and attended by roughly 100 ...

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 ...