Australian universities have slipped in the latest round of international higher education rankings, with only five local institutions placing in the world's top 50. The Australian National University ranked as the nation's best institution, but also dropped three places to ...

Sydney University staff fronted the picket lines once again yesterday in an historic strike to advance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff rights.   This marks the third staff strike in the last two weeks. According to National Tertiary Education Union ...

The University of Sydney has been fined $61,000 for disposing of a medical scanner containing radioactive material in a scrap metal yard in Chipping Norton in southwest Sydney. The university was charged over disposing of radioactive waste without the consent of the NSW Environmental ...

Western Sydney University has ranked first on the planet for its commitment to global equality and sustainability. Topping the list of more than 1,406 institutions across 106 countries, WSU secured its place as a world leader in the latest edition ...

New state laws cracking down on protests on major roads and railways have been labelled "disproportionate" and "lacking a rational basis" by a university law professor. Late Friday, NSW Parliament passed legislation which could see a penalty of two years ...

A nutritious diet could be more effective than drugs in preventing stroke, diabetes and heart disease, a new University of Sydney study has found. The research, published in Cell Metabolism, tested different combinations of three anti-ageing drugs with various mixtures of ...

The chances of finding children who have been abducted often lead detectives on a cold trail to an unhappy ending, sometimes no ending at all. That’s why the longer the search for Cleo Smith stretched on, the more criminologist Tim ...

Wage theft accusations are following the University of Sydney again this week, as 80 casual staff allege that they have been underpaid by millions over a six-year period.  Over the last two years more than twelve Australian universities have been, ...

The NSW government has won a landmark Supreme Court challenge to the state’s lockdown measures to combat the Covid outbreak. Two sets of plaintiffs – who all refused to be vaccinated – filed civil suits asking for various aspects of ...

Professor Julie Leask from the University of Sydney argues proposals for mandatory vaccinations must be supported by a “strong justification” and less draconian measures must be “meaningfully attempted” first, in a co-authored article in the Medical Journal of Australia. In ...