There’s no bronze for Australian subjects this year. The Swiss higher education system is now home to the third-highest number of departments among the top 10 in their discipline, relegating Australia to fourth place. It’s the first time Australia has not ...

Dr David Bottomley may look old, but he barely sounds it. Having recently completed his thesis, the 94-year-old now holds the title of 'oldest PhD graduate in Australian history'. When he speaks, it is evident he's learned. He is eloquent, ...

'Put down the paperwork'. It's an unlikely message from an ethics professor, but Mike Burgess, Chair in Biomedical Ethics at the University of British Columbia in Canada, says that what's good on paper isn't always in practice. In Perth to ...

The University of Sydney has again been named Australia’s top performing university in a research-only ranking. It jumped from 26 last year to 23 in the 2018–19 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), just behind Peking University. The University of ...

Despite Hollywood's (increasing) portrayal of brilliantly successful autistic savants - from Rain Man to The Good Doctor - the reality of employment for those with autism is the opposite. ABS data suggests just 40 per cent of people with autism work, compared to 83 ...

As a Master of Information Systems and Technology student at Curtin University, Muhammad Majid, 28, was so poor he couldn't afford textbooks. He would either borrow them from the library – if they weren't  already borrowed by someone else, or ...

Mauritius is known for many things; education generally not among them. Yet the Indian Ocean island paradise is fast becoming a knowledge hub. With the opening of a Curtin University campus in Moka, south-east of the capital Port Louis, this reputation is ...

Australian universities have increased their share of top-ten places for subject-specific performance according to new university rankings released today. The eighth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, ranks ...

Sixteen of Australia's universities have been named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). The citation is awarded to organisations that demonstrate a commitment to achieving gender equality. The universities join a number of ...

Curtin University has entered into an agreement with Telethon Kids Institute, to improve children's health and medical research in Western Australia. WA's largest university and the state's only child health research institute signed an affiliation agreement last week that will ...