Australia’s top universities have slid down the most recent world university rankings; however, experts say the popular rankings shouldn’t be the sole barometer of overall success. Times Higher Education (THE) published its 20th edition World University Rankings this year in ...

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” ...

Recent research from The University of Western Australia indicates that the real figure of Australian university students who engage in contract cheating in written assignments is between 8-11 per cent. Contract cheating involves students engaging the services of an academic ...

Last week Campus Review published an article about the research of UWA's Dr Cyril Grueter and a team of Edith Cowan University researchers that suggested altruism or kindness as a personality trait does not apply to everyone, and is more ...

A UWA academic contends that screen time is not the primary cause of an upsurge in myopia – or short-sightedness – around the world and that more research into the condition is needed. In an article for The Conversation, Professor ...

Laureates of Australian literature including Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee and Miles Franklin winner Charlotte Wood have declared their support for UWA Publishing in a defiant and impassioned open letter. The organisation’s future is in jeopardy following a shock announcement from ...

Academics, authors, alumni and the book-loving public are in a state of shock after the University of Western Australia yesterday announced it would close its publishing house after 85 years. The decision, circulated in a memo by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global ...

In a world that talks of 'obesity epidemics' and 'global connectedness', hundreds of millions struggle each day to get enough food to survive. For more than 800 million people on our planet, much of their daily life and what energy ...

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, ...

Single Mensa society members may reconsider bragging about it. A new University of Western Australia study has shown that although people prioritise intelligence in a mate, there's such a thing as being too intelligent to want to pair with. The same ...