Teacher performance-linked pay, teacher performance generally and student achievement – these are three issues that are never far from the headlines. But are the debates founded on sound evidence or merely the thought bubbles of politicians and populist commentators? We ...

Six Australian universities have secured a top 100 ranking in The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings for 2019 – doubling its representation since last year. The University of Melbourne was Australia’s highest ranked institution this year, coming in equal ...

Scroll through university social media for long enough and you will come across numerous dog posts. Whether it’s a pooch ‘getting ahead’ on his readings for the upcoming semester at UQ, or UWA law school’s resident sausage dog, Julius Caesar Juris Dogtor, ...

Another university application data dump, another Go8 domination. The University of Sydney has once again led first and total preliminary preferences among NSW and ACT domestic undergraduate university applicants. Also, per the previous year, UNSW, UTS, WSU, Macquarie and UON followed. USYD slightly increased ...

Professor Marguerite Johnson bristles at the issue of free speech on campus being termed a ‘fight’. But that is indeed how Campus Review labelled it at its recent seminar, ‘The Fight for Free Speech: What it Means for Universities’. Held on ...

Universities are the guardians of robust debate. However, questions about the roles and responsibilities of universities in providing a forum for open debate are repeatedly being raised. Are universities in Australia adequately equipped to protect free speech? Are existing university ...

Dr Alice Fabbri has never accepted industry money for research, nor have any of her colleagues at the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative within USYD’s Charles Perkins Centre. The postdoctoral research fellow is therefore well-placed to illuminate ‘truth decay’ – a phenomenon that can arise ...

One of the universities “most hostile to intellectual freedom” is also, apparently, its defender. In an op-ed published in The Australian on Tuesday, University of Sydney VC Michael Spence explained why, despite opinions to the contrary, his institution remains a defender of free ...

As an 18-year-old, I dated a boy who lived at St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney. There was a girl who attended neighbouring The Women’s College – lets call her Freda – who was treated akin to the Puberty ...

ACU has included a ‘no added sugar’ policy in its rule book, becoming the first Australian university to do so. After analysing vending machine offerings across its campuses and discovering that over half of beverages contained extra sweet stuff, they removed soft drinks, ...