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You would be forgiven for thinking you misheard certain comments at the latest Indian Science Congress. Among them: Einstein's theory of relativity was "a big blunder"; gods created dinosaurs; and gravitational waves should be renamed 'Narendra Modi waves'. Opened by ...

Higher education is changing. Many commentators are questioning the relevance of the physical campus. Degrees are no longer prerequisites to work at some of the world's biggest companies. And government funding patterns are changing. How can Australian universities remain relevant ...

After shopping around for more than a year, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation has found an unlikely partner: the University of Wollongong. Perhaps not the Centre's first choice – the deal was struck after negotiations with at least ANU, ...

RMIT is heralding its introduction of Australia's first 'fact-checking' university subject. The course, which will be mandatory for first year BA (Journalism) students, will include the teaching of skills like detecting Photoshopped images, using Google Earth to verify the location ...

What unites a Venezuelan computer scientist, a Swiss engineer, an Israeli professor and a American 'mad scientist'? The open access movement, of course. In September, twelve European nations and two charities announced their intention to make all science research they fund ...

As the reverberations of the Jamal Khashoggi murder continue, Saudi Arabia has found an ally: MIT. The top university released a report declaring it wishes to continue its relationship with the Kingdom, despite its egregious human rights violations, of which ...

Australia’s transport culture is one which consists primarily of single-occupancy commutes. We are very much a car-loving nation, but this is causing headaches for universities around the country. Growth in student numbers and scarce parking facilities, mixed with our existing ...

With most universities' summer breaks here, many international students will be hitting the beach – and the casino. That is, if a University of Tasmania report is to go by. A survey of almost 1,400 UTAS students revealed that while domestic students gambled ...

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 ...

The tiny, landlocked eastern Himalayan nation of Bhutan measures its success not by wealth – but by happiness. This is no mere slogan; it evaluates it annually using a Gross National Happiness (GNH) scale, per the terms of its 2008 ...