Australian universities have shone in the latest Shanghai Rankings, with UNSW maintaining its run of having the highest number of academic disciplines ranked worldwide. This year's Global Rankings of Academic Subjects ranked more than 5,000 universities across 96 countries and ...

Australia’s tertiary regulator has flagged an increase in online contractors amping up advertising for illegal cheating services. In a statement, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) said the return to face-to-face learning had seen material promoting “assignment help” ...

How many ideas and exciting bottom-up attempts to do something radical and different in professional education, or using educational technology or pedagogy, or experimenting with admissions practices, have been pulled back by the barriers of a university manual of procedures ...

From a very young age, Flora Salim has always been fascinated with technology, patterns and computing.  The now UNSW Engineering Professor became interested in computing since primary school, when at just 11 years old she learnt how to code. Salim’s ...

Australia’s top universities have partnered with six under-resourced high schools in NSW to help improve equity and access to higher education through literacy intervention.  The Imagined Futures project, developed by the NSW Equity Consortium, delivers literacy-focused programs to students living ...

UNSW has been given the green light to publish student course evaluation data following months of pushback from academic staff.  The Fair Work Commission upheld an appeal filed by university management on Monday, after a December ruling thwarted UNSW plans ...

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 ...