Universities

Health & Medicine

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Research

Preventing sexual violence at universities takes more than piecemeal education

Australian universities are required to implement evidence-based prevention programs for sexual violence, but the available evidence is often US-centric, non-inclusive and siloed

Sciences & Technology

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Research

What universities are getting wrong about teaching in the age of AI

Skills training alone won't prepare graduates for a world where AI is doing the technical work. The real fix lies in how universities teach, not what

Education

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Analysis

Re-imagining the university lecture for the next generation of Australian students

Facing empty seats and a digital dilemma, the future of the university lecture needs to be co-created to benefit student experience and wellbeing

Politics & Society

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Opinion

‘To tell the truth and seek justice are central to the remit of a university’

Australia's Indigenous-led truth-telling process is an opportunity to create a new generation of leaders who will transform higher education

Arts & Culture

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Book extract

Taylor Swift is filling a ‘blank space’ in academic research

A new book explores how Swift studies is bringing the cultural phenomena of Taylor Swift into academia

Education

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Research

Maybe the problem isn’t critical thinking, but how we assess it

There is a growing concern that Australia’s university students lack critical thinking, but maybe the problem is how we teach and assess it

Politics & Society

There’s a ‘third space’ in Australia’s higher education sector

In the blurry intersection between professional and academic staff, ‘third space’ workers can foster creativity and experimentation

Sciences & Technology

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Opinion

We don’t just need more engineers, we need next-gen engineers

Our profession’s future is not just about training more and more recruits to fill the shortage, we also need to focus on the qualities of our next-gen engineers

Education

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Book extract

Australian universities must prioritise Indigenous engineers

Indigenous ingenuity has all the hallmarks that modern engineers strive for – and Australia universities must shift their higher education paradigm

Business & Economics

Changing the cost of some uni degrees didn’t change students’ minds

New research finds that hikes in the cost of some university degrees had limited impact on students’ choices