Low and modest income earners are in the gris of a housing crisis as the Covid-19 pandemic causes rents to surge, according to a new report. Researchers from the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and University of NSW (UNSW) found that ...

Australian universities continue to punch well above their weight, as a new ranking puts Australia third for the number of universities it has in the global top 200. The Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU) 2021 rates universities by their ...

A new report into the trends of drug use in Australia has found that the use of many illicit substances like cocaine is at its highest levels since 2003. UNSW Sydney’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) recently released ...

A nine-year-old “physics genius” has been accepted to study physics at the University of New South Wales after completing senior high-school level maths and physics.  Gold Coast primary school student Allegra Clarke will commence her first physics subject online later ...

One of the country’s leading epidemiologists says crucial information is missing when NSW’s daily Covid-19 case numbers are announced that could help paint a clearer picture of how the virus is spreading. Professor Mary-Louise McLaws from the University of NSW said Sydney’s ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have developed a video game that provides insights into punishment and why some individuals will try almost anything to avoid it, while others are seemingly unfazed by it. For a long time it has been hypothesised that ...

UNSW chancellor Professor David Gonski announced yesterday that one “of Australia’s most dynamic educational leaders”, Professor Attila Brungs, will become UNSW Sydney’s incoming President and Vice-Chancellor on 31 January 2022. Brungs is the current vice-chancellor and president of the University ...

Local residents in the Lake Macquarie region in NSW are being recruited for a new marine habitat restoration project. Called Operation Posidonia, the project aims to restore endangered sea grasses in areas where they provide a critical habitat for marine ...

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 ...