There is a tension and dynamic playing out in the sector in many of our institutions of what comes next. Another budget has come and gone. It leaves us in no doubt that public funding relief for either our research, or ...

The Gonski Institute for Education at UNSW has released a report calling for the highly controversial National Assessment Plan for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) to be ditched, not merely redesigned or tweaked. NAPLAN testing, which ended on Thursday and involved ...

CampusReview · HEDx Podcast - The Future of Higher Education is Hybrid - Episode 27 Leading learning technology innovator Dr David Kellermann is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at UNSW in Sydney. He joins Martin and Karl to share his ...

Will the next great painter be AI? As algorithms get smarter, computers will play more of a role in creating music, art and other cultural artifacts, says a UNSW researcher. Associate Professor Oliver Bown, co-director of the Interactive Media Lab ...

A study including people who are unable to visualise mental images has suggested that “imagery is an emotional thought amplifier”. For the study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers guided 46 study participants (22 with aphantasia, and ...

Researchers from the University of NSW have developed a biosecurity program they say could have prevented COVID-19 and believe it will be instrumental in thwarting future pandemics. UNSW’s head of biosecurity research, Raina MacIntyre, has spearheaded an intelligence program called Epiwatch that ...

UNSW will be under new leadership in 2022, after its vice-chancellor announced he will step down from the role. After seven years at the helm, professor Ian Jacobs made the “difficult and emotional” decision to resign so he and partner ...

As Australia begins a slow and difficult recovery from COVID-19, the status of our universities will be increasingly important in attracting and retaining international students once borders fully reopen. In a recent article for The Conversation, UNSW president and vice-chancellor ...

Flames that rose from announcements Australian National University and UNSW were planning staff cuts were fanned by news a US university’s Sydney campus was eligible for JobKeeper payments. This week, ANU vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt revealed the “painful” decision to cut ...

It happened again. On 31st July, the University of NSW tweeted an article which quoted Human Rights Watch's Australia director and adjunct law lecturer, Elaine Pearson, expressing her concerns over the erosion of human rights in Hong Kong. The tweet ...